Re: [tz] State of Texas – A plan to end daylight saving time
Folks: I've closely followed a few specific legislative topics in North America for many years, adding time zone to the list a few years ago. It seems to me that the body of legislation proposed to impact time zone or DST follows the general tendency to have no chance of ever coming to a vote, much less passing. In the US Congress only about one out of 20 bills is passed. I can't cite a similar statistic for state legislatures, but believe the phenomena is even more pronounced at the state level. The vast majority of bills are trial balloons, vanity projects, Quixotic, shots across some bow or another, or just plain crazy. So for no reason other than statistics I doubt this bill will go anywhere, though it is hard to know when we are hearing about a rare bill with "legs" — unless someone with specific inside knowledge shares it with the list. The only legislation I can imagine could ever achieve broad public support would be to abolish DST altogether at the national level, and even that is a long shot. Regards, Steve Jones
Steve Jones wrote:
The vast majority of bills are trial balloons, vanity projects, Quixotic, shots across some bow or another, or just plain crazy.
Yes, and I mostly haven't bothered this list with the DST proposals that have appeared in quite a few state legislatures in the past year. For what it's worth, the proposal that's gotten the furthest has been Montana's, where SB 206 would discontinue DST starting next year. This bill passed the Montana Senate 36-14 on Feb. 22 and is scheduled to be heard by the Montana House State Administration Committee about six hours from now. Grant C. Bill would create Montana standard time. Bozeman Daily Chronicle 2017-03-13. http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/mtleg/bill-would-create-montana-st...
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