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. 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. Some states have commissioned studies on the topic including Massachusetts (2017) and Maine (2021). Florida (2018 California voters also authorized such a change that year, but legislative action is pending). Delaware, Maine, Oregon, Tennessee and Washington (2019). Idaho, Louisiana, Ohio (resolution), South Carolina, Utah and Wyoming (2020). The 19 states are Colorado (2022), Alabama, Georgia, Minnesota, Mississippi and Montana (2021). Because federal law does not currently allow full-time DST, Congress would have to act before states could adopt changes. In the last five years, 19 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 450 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. Almost 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. States that currently remain on standard time year-round would be allowed to continue. 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. 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. 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. On March 15, the Senate passed, by unanimous consent, the Sunshine Protection Act of 2021. residents preferred daylight saving time all year round, 33% preferred standard time year-round and 21% were okay continuing to clock switch twice a year.
A CBS News poll in March 2022 found that 46% of U.S. The federal Uniform Time Act allows the former option but not the latter. Inherent in the debate is whether to enact either permanent standard time or permanent daylight time. Much of the legislation would stop the disruption-causing, twice-yearly clock switching. State legislatures have considered at least 450 bills and resolutions in recent years to establish year-round daylight saving time as soon as federal law allows it.
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