Sunshine Protection Act of 2023

Subjects: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:  <p><b>Sunshine Protection Act of 2023</b></p> <p>This bill makes daylight saving time the new, permanent standard time.</p> <p>States with areas exempt from daylight saving time may choose the standard time for those areas.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1279 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1279

    To make daylight savings time permanent, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2023

 Mr. Buchanan (for himself, Mr. Posey, Mr. Mills, Mr. Mast, Mrs. Luna, 
  Mr. Rutherford, Ms. Salazar, Mr. Waltz, Mr. Mooney, Mr. Comer, Mr. 
Strong, Ms. Mace, Mr. Carl, and Mr. Burchett) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To make daylight savings time permanent, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Sunshine Protection Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. MAKING DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME PERMANENT.

    (a) Repeal of Temporary Period for Daylight Savings Time.--Section 
3 of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S.C. 260a) is hereby repealed.
    (b) Advancement of Standard Time.--
            (1) In general.--The second sentence of subsection (a) of 
        section 1 of the Act of March 19, 1918 (commonly known as the 
        ``Calder Act'') (15 U.S.C. 261), is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``4 hours'' and inserting ``3 
                hours'';
                    (B) by striking ``5 hours'' and inserting ``4 
                hours'';
                    (C) by striking ``6 hours'' and inserting ``5 
                hours'';
                    (D) by striking ``7 hours'' and inserting ``6 
                hours'';
                    (E) by striking ``8 hours'' and inserting ``by 7 
                hours'';
                    (F) by striking ``9 hours'' and inserting ``8 
                hours'';
                    (G) by striking ``10 hours;'' and inserting ``9 
                hours;'';
                    (H) by striking ``11 hours'' and inserting ``10 
                hours''; and
                    (I) by striking ``10 hours.'' and inserting ``11 
                hours.''.
            (2) State exemption.--Such section is further amended by--
                    (A) redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); 
                and
                    (B) inserting after subsection (a) the following:
    ``(b) Standard Time for Certain States and Areas.--The standard 
time for a State that has exempted itself from the provisions of 
section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S.C. 260a(a)), as in 
effect on the day before the date of the enactment of the Sunshine 
Protection Act of 2023, pursuant to such section, or an area of a State 
that has exempted such area from such provisions pursuant to such 
section, shall be, as such State considers appropriate--
            ``(1) the standard time for such State or area, as the case 
        may be, pursuant to subsection (a) of this section; or
            ``(2) the standard time for such State or area, as the case 
        may be, pursuant to subsection (a) of this section as it was in 
        effect on the day before the date of the enactment of the 
        Sunshine Protection Act of 2023.''.
            (3) Conforming amendment.--Such section is further amended, 
        in the second sentence of subsection (a), by striking ``Except 
        as provided in section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 
        U.S.C. 260a),'' and inserting ``Except as provided in 
        subsection (b),''.
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