Mississippi Senate Bill 2180 sponsored by Senator Russell Jolly was killed by the Senate House Rules Committee yesterday. No other information is available on the legislature’s web site, and no news articles yet found in a web search.
Who Is Proposing What?
So there are nine states with active DST-related legislation. With two new states last week, who can keep up? Here’s the simplest review we can give you…
What’s New on Groundhog Day?!
Our podcast “Legislative Update for Monday February 2, 2015” is now available on our podcast site http://Podcast.TimeZoneReport.com and on iTunes
DST Bills Now in South Dakota and New Mexico
Two new states have legislation regarding Daylight Saving Time filed this past week: South Dakota and New Mexico. This brings the count of states with active legislation to nine. Arizona HB 2014 proposed to adopt DST in the state, after not having DST since 1968, but public pressure on the bill’s sponsor prompted him to […]
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Legislative Summary — Thursday, January 29, 2015
Here’s a consolidated look at the current status of all state legislation relating to Daylight Saving Time in the 2015 legislative sessions. See our web site at http://TimeZoneReport.com for up-to-date full details on each state’s legislation and status. Note About Year-Round DST Some states are considering Year-Round DST as an option. Unfortunately, US Code only […]
Utah DST Legislation: “One Bill or the Other, Not Both”
Time Zone Report inquired of Representative Lee Perry and Senator Aaron Osmond regarding their two separate items on the Utah legislative agenda. One bill, filed yesterday January 27, 2015, is House Bill 178 filed by Senator Lee Perry. Sen. Perry’s bill would exempt the entire state from the observance of Daylight Saving Time. If this bill […]
Utah’s HB 178 Proposes to Drop DST
Yesterday Utah Representative Lee Perry filed HB 178 entitled “Daylight Saving Time Exemption”. This bill, if passed, would exempt Utah from Daylight Saving Time immediately, since it’s effective date of Saturday March 7, 2015 is before the start of DST for most other US states on Sunday March 8. Arizona, Utah’s neighbor to the south, […]
Daily Update – Friday January 22, 2015
New Legislation Florida has now entered into the Year-Round Daylight Saving Time debacle. Apparently state legislators don’t have anyone nearby to warn them that Congress didn’t allow for that option in 15 USC Subchapter IX “Standard Time”. There, Congress basically tells us: “if you do DST, you have to do it THIS way; the only […]
Time For Congress to Create “Forward Time”?
No state can currently enact legislation to go to Year-Round DST, because 15 USC Subsection IX “Standard Time” doesn’t permit it. Congressional Research Service report (number 98-99C from February of 1998, available online here) titled “Daylight Saving Time” says: Although it may exempt itself, if a state decides to observe DST, the dates of observance […]
