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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 300 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To allow States to elect to observe daylight savings time for the duration |
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| 6 | 6 | | of the year, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY9, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. M |
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| 10 | 10 | | ALOYintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee |
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| 11 | 11 | | on Energy and Commerce |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To allow States to elect to observe daylight savings time |
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| 14 | 14 | | for the duration of the year, and for other purposes. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Daylight Act’’. 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SEC. 2. OPTIONAL YEAR-LONG APPLICATION OF DAYLIGHT 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SAVINGS TIME. 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 7 |
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| 22 | 22 | | U.S.C. 260a) is amended— 8 |
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| 23 | 23 | | (1) by inserting ‘‘or may by law apply the ad-9 |
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| 24 | 24 | | vancement of time described in this section for the 10 |
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| 25 | 25 | | VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:24 Feb 04, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H300.IH H300 |
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| 26 | 26 | | kjohnson on DSK7ZCZBW3PROD with $$_JOB 2 |
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| 27 | 27 | | •HR 300 IH |
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| 28 | 28 | | duration of the year,’’ after ‘‘may by law exempt 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | itself from the provisions of this subsection providing 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | for the advancement of time,’’; 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (2) by striking ‘‘the standard time otherwise 4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | applicable during that period’’ and inserting ‘‘the 5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | same standard time’’; 6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (3) by striking ‘‘may by law exempt either the 7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | entire State as provided in (1) or’’ and inserting ‘‘, 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | by law, may apply either standard time provided for 9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | in paragraph (1) to the entire State,’’; and 10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (4) by inserting ‘‘, or may apply the advance-11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ment of time for the duration of the year to the en-12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | tire area of the State lying within any time zone’’ 13 |
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| 41 | 41 | | before the period at the end. 14 |
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