In the absence of Federal government action, lawmakers in 28 states have proposed legislation to end seasonal time changes each Fall and Spring. In March, 2022, The U.S. Senate passed a bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent. The bill went nowhere in the House, and has made no apparent progress in the past 20+ months.
Citing research that twice per year clock changes are bad for human health, energy use, and economic productivity, state legislators are trying to pass their own end to clock changes, at the state level. 19 states have actually passed measures to switch to permanent daylight saving time IF Congress changes a federal law to allow it. A 1966 federal law instituting national daylight savings time, allowed states to opt out, but only if they adopted permanent standard time. Hawaii and Arizona are the only states that did so (along with 5 of the US territories). The 19 states are: Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
In addition to the 19 states that want permanent Daylight Saving Time, there are another 9 states that have pending legislation to adopt permanent standard time. The nine are: Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Vermont.
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