Title: Sunshine Protection Act of 2018
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
Sunshine Protection Act of 2018
The bill amends the Uniform Time Act of 1966 to make daylight savings time the new, permanent standard time.
States with areas exempt from daylight savings time may choose the standard time for those areas.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2537 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2537

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 12, 2018

   Mr. Rubio introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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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 2018''.

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3 of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S.C. 260a) is hereby repealed.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.--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, in the second sentence--
                    (A) by striking ``5 hours'' and inserting ``4 
                hours'';
                    (B) by striking ``6 hours'' and inserting ``5 
                hours'';
                    (C) by striking ``7 hours'' and inserting ``6 
                hours'';
                    (D) by striking ``8 hours'' and inserting ``by 7 
                hours'';
                    (E) by striking ``9 hours'' and inserting ``8 
                hours'';
                    (F) by striking ``10 hours;'' and inserting ``9 
                hours;'';
                    (G) by striking ``11 hours'' and inserting ``10 
                hours''; and
                    (H) 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 2018, 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 2018.''.
            (3) Conforming amendment.--Such section is further amended, 
        in the second sentence, by striking ``Except as provided in 
        section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S.C. 
        260a(a)), the'' and inserting ``Except as provided in 
        subsection (b),''.
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