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The bill shifts authority and clarifies statutory time offsets to give states and localities more control and reduce some federal ambiguity, but it risks costly reconfiguration, scheduling disruptions, legal inconsistency, and public confusion as clocks and systems adjust.
State and local governments: gain clearer statutory authority over standard time offsets by removing an ambiguous federal cross-reference, making time-setting rules easier to interpret and implement.
State and local governments: the repeal of the federal DST provision lets states and localities adopt permanent clock policies (e.g., remain on standard time) without direct conflict with the prior federal statute.
Federal agencies and cross-jurisdictional operators (e.g., DOT, transit, freight): a uniform statutory change to time offsets reduces federal-level ambiguity for scheduling and zone definitions across jurisdictions.
Critical services and systems (airlines, broadcasts, computer networks, transit): will likely need costly reconfiguration and face elevated risk of scheduling errors during the transition to new time rules.
Residents and businesses (including small businesses): would face clock shifts relative to current civil time that could disrupt work schedules, travel, communications, and local commerce.
State and local governments: removing the federal DST statute eliminates a national uniform framework, creating potential legal uncertainty and inconsistent time observance across states and localities.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Moves U.S. statutory time zone offsets 30 minutes closer to UTC and repeals the federal rule that sets annual daylight saving clock changes.
Introduced February 4, 2026 by W. Greg Steube · Last progress February 4, 2026
Changes U.S. standard time by moving each statutory time zone offset 30 minutes closer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and makes the ninth listed zone UTC+10.5. It also removes the federal statutory provision that currently governs the annual advancing of clocks for daylight saving time and related state exemption rules. All changes take effect 90 days after enactment. The law will require updating clocks, transportation schedules, computer systems, legal references, and may create new questions about how daylight saving time is set or managed going forward.