Sunshine Protection Act aims to establish daylight saving time as the permanent standard time. As of now, the Sunshine Protection Act, which proposes to establish daylight saving time as a permanent standard, has not passed a vote in the House. Consequently, clocks will still advance by one hour at 2 am on March 10, as per the report.
Oregon‘s state Senate failed to advance a bill Tuesday that would have abolished daylight saving time in most of the state and switched it to standard time for the entire year, the latest chapter in an effort by states to settle on whether clocks need to fall back or spring forward at all.
The bill proposed that the part of the state in the Pacific Time Zone — almost all of the state is, save Malheur County, which is on Mountain time — abolish “the annual one-hour change in time from standard time to daylight saving time.”
The measure isn’t entirely dead: The state Senate sent the bill back to committee to be amended to make sure that if it were to happen Oregon wouldn’t be the only state in the region switching to permanent standard time.
Lawmakers in Oregon’s neighboring states have proposed similar bills. In Idaho this week, a bill was introduced to get rid of daylight saving time, and there is a similar bill in front of California’s Assembly. In Washington state, a bill to abolish daylight saving time and return to permanent standard time failed last month.
FAQs
Q1. When will Daylight saving time start?
A1. Daylight saving time kicks off across most of the US on March 10.
Q2. What is Sunshine Protection Act?
A2. Sunshine Protection Act aims to establish daylight saving time as the permanent standard time.
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