North Dakota HB 1259 requiring year-round standard time
https://legiscan.com/ND/text/HB1259/2025 HB 1259 passed the North Dakota House last week. No idea on whether it will pass the ND Senate or be signed into law. The tricky thing about this bill is that it does not have an implementation time frame. Theoretically if it moves through in the next week or two, we could be looking at a repeat of the Lebanon 2023 fiasco. I hope if they are going to pass it, they take their time.
A bill has also been introduced in Maryland; links to text and status below. Past efforts have died in committee in Maryland. An obnoxious (from a time zone maintenance point of view): "If the Department of Legislative Services receives notice of the change to 15 U.S.C. § 260a on or before December 31, 2030, Section 1 of this Act shall take effect on the second Sunday in March or the first Sunday in November after the change to 15 U.S.C. § 260a becomes effective, whichever occurs first." So if, for example, notice is received on November 1, cancellation of the return to DST will happen within at most two weeks notice. I'll be writing to my representatives and trying to submit written testimony. (In the past, Maryland has provided a one-day window for written testimony; I get to be careful about the time. Providentially, I am.-) @dashdashado https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1290F.pdf https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/Hb1290 On Tue, Feb 11, 2025, 10:10 AM Andrea Singletary via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
https://legiscan.com/ND/text/HB1259/2025
HB 1259 passed the North Dakota House last week. No idea on whether it will pass the ND Senate or be signed into law.
The tricky thing about this bill is that it does not have an implementation time frame. Theoretically if it moves through in the next week or two, we could be looking at a repeat of the Lebanon 2023 fiasco. I hope if they are going to pass it, they take their time.
On 2/11/25 07:38, Arthur Olson via tz wrote:
A bill has also been introduced in Maryland
Similar efforts are present in Utah[1], North Carolina[2], and Maine[3] (for permanent standard time) and in Nebraska[4] (one bill for permanent standard time, one for permanent DST). Most likely there are bills in other states too. I haven't been sending email to the list about these efforts, as so far none of them have seemed close enough to actually happening. Of course I could well be wrong. [1]: Beal-Cvetko B, Woodruff D. A ‘waste of time’? Utah House passes bill to end daylight saving time. Deseret News. 2025-02-06. <https://www.deseret.com/utah/2025/02/06/utah-house-passes-bill-to-end-daylig...> [2]: Wooten A. NC bill aims to turn off Daylight Saving Time. The Daily Record. 2025-02-11 <https://www.mydailyrecord.com/news/nc-bill-aims-to-turn-off-daylight-saving-...> [3]: Palanza L. A Thing of the Past? — Maine Lawmakers Consider Ditching Daylight Savings Time. Maine Wire. 2025-02-11. <https://www.themainewire.com/2025/02/a-thing-of-the-past-maine-lawmakers-con...>. [4]: Wendling Z. Year-round standard time, daylight saving time bills both advance from Nebraska committee. Nebraska Examiner. 2025-02-07. <https://nebraskaexaminer.com/briefs/year-round-standard-time-daylight-saving...>
On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 at 16:40, Paul Eggert via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
Similar efforts are present in Utah…(for permanent standard time)
Interestingly, it is Utah representative Celeste Maloy who has introduced a bill into this session of Congress to allow states to opt into year-round daylight time in the same way the current statute allows states like Arizona and Hawaii to observe year-round standard time: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/300/text
I haven't been sending email to the list about these efforts, as so far none of them have seemed close enough to actually happening. Of course I could well be wrong.
While many states have had repeated proposals for years, this is first I recall hearing about proposed legislation for North Dakota (at least somewhat confirmed by a quick search of recent list history). Of course, at the national level, there is the now-routinely resubmitted "Sunshine Protection Act" which would effectuate the equivalent of year-round daylight time. The latest versions can be found here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/139/text https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/29/text In particular, its text allows for states which use the existing DST exemption to maintain the existing offset they used immediately prior to the proposed national change taking effect. So, for a state like North Dakota — most of which is in the far northwestern portion of a time zone where calls for year-round standard time tend to be more favored than year-round daylight time — it may be considered protective to have legislation at the ready to be able to declare year-round standard time prior to national year-round DST taking effect, thus preserving their optionality for the future. (States which don't take the existing exemption don't appear to get any choice but to keep their clocks forward.) Like most such measures, it has typically stalled in committee (the surprise in 2022 being the exception). However, the idea again attracted media attention in December 2024 for its stated support from proponents associated with the new administration, and it will inevitably attract its usual seasonal attention in popular media over the next several weeks. While there's no telling whether this time around is any different, I don't have many doubts that, if the national legislation is ever passed into law, we will see an uptick in movement on related state bills between then and when the national changes would take effect. -- Tim Parenti
On 2025-02-11 07:09, Andrea Singletary via tz wrote:
https://legiscan.com/ND/text/HB1259/2025 ... The tricky thing about this bill is that it does not have an implementation time frame.
Although I doubt whether the bill will become law, if it does the state's constitution says it would take effect August 1, so North Dakota would fall back August 1 and stay on standard time thereafter. See: Darney K. Can Standard Time become law in North Dakota before Daylight Saving Time kicks in? KX News. 2025-02-26. https://www.kxnet.com/news/top-stories/can-standard-time-become-law-in-north... As no time is specified for the transition, presumably it would take place at 00:00 on August 1.
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