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The bill shifts control over daylight saving time to the states—protecting those who prefer staying on standard time and increasing local choice—while risking a confusing, economically disruptive patchwork of time rules and some legal/administrative complications.
All U.S. residents: removes federal statutory authorization for daylight saving time and returns authority over clock policy to the states, increasing local control.
People in states that prefer standard time: avoids future federally mandated clock changes for those states, reducing biannual clock shifts and the related disruptions.
Businesses, travelers, and interstate services: could face a patchwork of differing time observance across states, complicating scheduling, transportation, broadcasting, and commerce.
Residents in states that want year-round DST: may lose the option to adopt permanent DST if federal authorization is removed and states cannot unilaterally implement year‑round DST.
State and federal governments: changing hour-offset phrasing in existing statutes could create legal ambiguity or drafting errors, producing administrative burdens and potential costs to fix later.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Removes federal authorization for daylight saving time and reduces listed hour-offset values in the federal time statute by 0.5 hour; effective in 90 days.
Introduced February 4, 2026 by W. Greg Steube · Last progress February 4, 2026
Eliminates the federal statutory authorization for daylight saving time and changes several hour-offset phrases in the long-standing U.S. time statute by reducing each listed hour value by 0.5 hour. The law takes effect 90 days after enactment. The measure does not provide new funding or direct agencies to implement programs; it alters timekeeping language in two existing statutes and sets a near-term effective date for those changes.