What's happening
This bill eliminates daylight savings time in New York State, making standard time permanent year-round.
Why it matters
Removes the biannual “spring forward” and “fall back” clock changes, providing a consistent time system throughout the entire year, which could reduce confusion, scheduling errors, and health issues linked to time shifts.
Prohibits any state or local government agency in New York from adopting or enforcing a different standard of time, ensuring uniformity statewide and preventing a patchwork of local time rules.
May impact industries and individuals who coordinate with regions that still observe daylight savings time, potentially complicating transportation, broadcasting, and business operations that cross state or national lines.
Could influence sleep patterns, energy usage, and daily routines by aligning timekeeping more closely with winter sunrises and sunsets, which may have consequences for public health and productivity.
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End Daylight Savings Time
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Sponsors
7 Co-sponsors
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Referred to governmental operations
- Referred to governmental operations
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6622
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 14, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. MORINELLO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the general construction law, in relation to eliminating daylight savings time; to amend the public service law, in relation to daylight savings time; and to repeal section 2-106 of the administrative code of the city of New York relating thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 52 of the general construction law, as amended by chapter 377 of the laws of 1955, is amended to read as follows:
§ 52. Time, standard. 1. The standard time throughout this state is that of the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich[, except as hereinafter provided, and all courts and public officers, and legal and official proceedings, shall be regulated thereby]. The state, acting under the exemption provisions of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S.C. Section 260a(a)), is exempt from the provisions of that law that establishes daylight savings time.
2. [At two o'clock ante meridian on the last Sunday in April of each year the standard time throughout this state shall be advanced one hour from that of the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich, and the time so advanced shall continue to be standard time throughout this state until the last Sunday in October of the same year, when such standard time, as so advanced, shall be retarded to that of the seventy-fifth meridian west from Greenwich; and during such period in each year all courts and public officers, and legal and official proceedings, shall be regulated in accordance therewith.] No department or agency of the state or of any county, city or other political subdivision shall employ any other time or adopt any statute, ordinance or order providing for the use of any other standard of time.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10666-01-9
A. 6622 2
§ 2. Subparagraph (1) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 27 of section 66 of the public service law, as amended by chapter 477 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read as follows:
(1) the hours for which such rates are available [for both standard and daylight savings time];
§ 3. Section 2-106 of the administrative code of the city of New York is REPEALED.
§ 4. This act shall take effect January 1, 2022.
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