It would seem that a primary complaint of those seeking a change from the current situation is the act of time switching itself, and the problems that it creates. The Transportation Department website states that DST saves energy, saves lives and prevents traffic injuries, and it reduces crime since people tend to be out and about more in daylight hours as opposed to the night when most crimes are committed. Other studies have shown negative impacts on people’s health and circadian rhythms because of time changes as well as a higher number of car crashes and workplace injuries in the days after a time change.
DST was originally enacted as a way to save energy by giving more daylight in the evening hours, but some studies have called into question the degree of energy savings. Federal law allows a state to exempt itself from observing daylight saving time, upon action by the state legislature, but does not allow the permanent observance of DST. The territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. All states but Hawaii and Arizona (except the Navajo Nation) observe DST. Department of Transportation is responsible for overseeing DST and the country’s time zones. The current enactment was part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Several changes occurred along the way, mostly altering the start and end dates of DST. The U.S. had daylight saving time as early as 1918, with the current federal policy being enacted in 1966, as the Uniform Time Act. territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands observe permanent standard time. Two states - Arizona and Hawaii - and the U.S. The 18 states are Alabama, Georgia, Minnesota, Mississippi and Montana (2021). Idaho, Louisiana, Ohio (resolution), South Carolina, Utah and Wyoming (2020). Delaware, Maine, Oregon, Tennessee and Washington (2019). Florida (2018 California voters also authorized such a change that year, but legislative action is pending). Some states have commissioned studies on the topic including Massachusetts (2017) and Maine (2021). Because federal law does not currently allow full-time DST, Congress would have to act before states could adopt changes. In the last four years, 18 states have enacted legislation or passed resolutions to provide for year-round daylight saving time, if Congress were to allow such a change, and in some cases, if surrounding states enact the same legislation. Since 2015, at least 350 bills and resolutions have been introduced in virtually every state, but none of significance passed until 2018, when Florida became the first state to enact legislation to permanently observe DST, pending amendment of federal law to permit such action. Most all of the states have considered legislation over the last several years that would place the state permanently on either standard time or daylight saving time. State legislatures continue to grapple with the vexing and multifaceted state policy questions regarding the biannual changing of the clocks.
They are turned back again to standard time on the first Sunday in November as DST ends. begins each year on the second Sunday in March when clocks are set forward by one hour. The daylight saving time (DST) period in the U.S. The bill’s fate in the House is uncertain though matching legislation has been introduced and the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on the issue in early March. However, because the bill also repeals the section of federal law that changes standard time to daylight time from March to November, states would be forced to choose to operate either on standard or daylight year-round. States that currently remain on standard time year-round would be allowed to continue. If passed by the House and signed by the president, the bill would move forward by one hour what is currently considered standard time by the federal government, beginning in November 2023. It would allow those states that had previously chosen to move to year-round daylight time, either through legislation or voter approval, to make that change.
On March 15, the Senate passed, by unanimous consent, the Sunshine Protection Act of 2021.
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