1.1 A bill for an act
1.2 relating to state government; providing for recognition of federal standard time
1.3 year-round beginning in 2025 and expiring upon enactment of a federal law
1.4 authorizing states to recognize advanced standard time year-round; amending
1.5 Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 645.071.
1.6BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.7 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 645.071, is amended to read:
1.8 645.071 STANDARD OF TIME.
1.9 Every mention of, or reference to, any hour or time in any law is to be construed with
1.10reference to and in accordance with the standard time or advanced standard time provided
1.11by federal law. No department of the state government and no county, city or town shall
1.12employ any other time or adopt any ordinance or order providing for the use of any other
1.13time than the federal standard time or advanced standard time.
1.14 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective upon the date and time that advanced
1.15standard time transitions to standard time in calendar year 2025 as provided by federal law,
1.16and expires on the date and time that the amendments made by Laws 2021, First Special
1.17Session chapter 12, article 2, section 20, take effect.
1Section 1.
REVISOR SGS/CH 25-0455103/03/25
State of Minnesota
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
H. F. No. 1944
NINETY-FOURTH SESSION
Authored by Freiberg and Virnig03/05/2025
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on State Government Finance and Policy