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Republican Representative Vern Buchanan of Florida, who introduced the bill in January 2025, said on Tuesday that clock changes disrupt schedules “for no good reason”.<\/p>\n
Now that the House has passed the legislation, the Senate could soon take up its version of the bill. However, its future there is uncertain.<\/p>\n
“We’ll see what happens when it gets here,” Senator John Barrasso, the number-two Republican whose party holds a slim majority in the upper chamber, said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Florida Republican Senator Rick Scott introduced an identical piece of legislation, also called the Sunshine Protection Act, in January 2025.<\/p>\n
Since World War One, the US has set its clocks forward during the summer to have more daylight in the afternoon and to conserve electricity. The time-change is known as Daylight Saving Time (DST). Clocks roll back in the autumn each year to then follow standard time. <\/p>\n
DST, which also helped conserve fuel during the World War One, was unpopular with farmers and was repealed after the war. It returned during World War Two, and legislation standardising clock-changing across the country passed in 1966, although some states, including Hawaii and Arizona, and US territories Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, have opted out. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n