A Republican bill with no cosponsors
Last activity — Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
In committee
Introduced and handed to a committee in the chamber it started in.
The committee holds it, and most bills are never heard from again. A hearing or a committee vote would be news; silence is the usual outcome, and it kills the bill without anyone voting against it.
Its path through Congress
- Introduced
- In Committee
What this bill would do
This bill, titled the ``Daylight Act'', seeks to change how time is observed in various States. It amends the Uniform Time Act of 1966 to allow States to elect to observe daylight savings time for the entire year. The legislation provides options for how time can be applied to an entire State or specific areas within a time zone. This change would allow for the year-long application of advanced time.
Yes
- Scored +5
Does this leave more decisions to the states?
The bill expands state authority by allowing them to elect year-long daylight savings time for their entire state or specific time zones.
The opposite
No question was scored the opposite.
Who it would affect, and how
Potential Positive Impacts for People
- Year-long daylight savings option: States could choose to apply the advancement of time for the entire duration of the year, as described in Section 2.
Potential Negative Impacts for People
- No negative impacts or burdens are explicitly mentioned in the text provided.
Groups and Interests Ranking
Every group the model scored this bill for, from -10 to +10. Tap or hover a score for the reason it gave.
- Governance And Ideology
- Does this leave more decisions to the states? — The bill expands state authority by allowing them to elect year-long daylight savings time for their entire state or specific time zones.
- 1/9/2025
- Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- Introduced in House
One bill Congress.gov lists as related to this one — companions in the other chamber, earlier versions, and bills this one absorbed or was folded into.