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The bill reduces twice-yearly clock-change disruption and clarifies legal time offsets—benefiting public health and legal certainty—while imposing transition costs and risking a patchwork of time standards that can confuse travel and commerce.
Most residents and workers: the bill reduces twice-yearly clock changes by eliminating the temporary DST period if standard time is fixed nationally, cutting sleep/schedule disruption and related health/safety risks.
State and local governments that already stayed on one time year-round: can retain their preferred clock choice and avoid a disruptive forced schedule change.
Businesses and agencies (including financial institutions): statutory time offsets are clarified, reducing legal uncertainty about federal standard time definitions used in contracts, scheduling, and regulatory compliance.
State and local governments, businesses, and workers: will face administrative and IT costs to update schedules, systems, and time-dependent operations (including airlines, broadcasting, and financial markets) to new statutory offsets.
Commuters, transportation workers, and cross-border businesses: interstate coordination and travel could be disrupted if neighboring states adopt different standards, causing confusion for travelers and commerce.
Businesses and government agencies operating across jurisdictions: will face transitional compliance and scheduling complexity as systems, contracts, and operations are adjusted to new or clarified time definitions.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Makes daylight saving time permanent by advancing statutory standard-time offsets one hour and lets previously exempted areas choose the prior standard or the new time.
Repeals the federal temporary daylight saving time period and shifts the federal statutory definition of standard time forward by one hour, effectively making daylight saving time permanent nationwide. It also lets States or areas that had previously exempted themselves from daylight saving time choose to remain on the prior standard time or adopt the new, advanced time. The bill contains no funding, agency actions, or deadlines; it changes statutory time offsets and creates an exception for previously exempted jurisdictions, with implementation details left to existing timekeeping and regulatory systems.
Introduced January 3, 2025 by Vernon G. Buchanan · Last progress January 3, 2025