Two bills are active in the\u00a0Missouri House:<\/p>\n
HJR 38 proposes to “spring forward” in March 2017, and stay there, effectively going into Year-Round DST.\u00a0 The fact that the legislation says “After this time, daylight saving time will no longer be recognized as the official time of this state” is immaterial.<\/p>\n
HB 1135 establishes the “Daylight Saving as New Standard Time Pact”, declares itself the first member of that pact, and invites “any other state desiring to permanently change daylight saving time to a new standard time”.\u00a0 It goes on in a later paragraph to say that when at least ten states have passed legislation to join the “pact”, Missouri (and each of the other states) “shall switch clocks to daylight saving for the last time, and daylight saving time will be eliminated”.<\/p>\n
Here at Time Zone Report,\u00a0I really think legislation “changing the names of times” like going to DST but saying “it’s eliminated” is a really bad way to accomplish this.\u00a0 If you’re going to go onto permanent DST, why not just say so?\u00a0 I just don’t get it.<\/p>\n
HB 1135’s middle paragraph says, without any restrictions, that “Missouri hereby exempts all areas of the state from the daylight saving time provisions of 15 U.S.C. Section 260a”, effectively eliminating<\/strong> DST.\u00a0 I don’t know the intent of the sponsor of the bill, but to me, this reads “let’s go off of DST until ten states join the pact, then let’s go back on DST year-round.”<\/p>\n Missouri\u00a0State Legislature<\/a><\/p>\n HJM 38<\/a><\/p>\n HB 1135<\/a><\/p>\n Representative Mike Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n Representative Delus Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n Posts from this Time Zone Report site<\/a><\/p>\n Time Zone Report’s Twitter\u00a0collection “MO-DST-Legislation<\/a>”<\/p>\n <\/p>\nLinks to Legislation<\/h1>\n
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