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HB1400 • 2026
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Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
Assigned to State Government Administration Committee
Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Chris Miller
Chief Co-Sponsor Changed to Rep. Chris Miller
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin Schmidt
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Travis Weaver
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Martin McLaughlin
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Charles Meier
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Dennis Tipsword
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Steven Reick
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Dan Ugaste
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jeff Keicher
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jed Davis
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Paul Jacobs
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Joe C. Sosnowski
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Adam M. Niemerg
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Brandun Schweizer
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Wayne A. Rosenthal
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Dan Swanson
Assigned to State Government Administration Committee
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael J. Coffey, Jr.
First Reading
Referred to Rules Committee
Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Brad Halbrook
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Full Text of HB1400 Home Legislation Full Text HB1400 - 104th General Assembly Bill Status Full Text Votes Witness Slips Select Menu Bill Status Full Text Votes Witness Slips Printer Friendly Version Introduced Printer Friendly Version Introduced Open PDF 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1400 Introduced 1/28/2025, by Rep. Brad Halbrook SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 5 ILCS 440/1 from Ch. 1, par. 3201 Amends the Time Standardization Act. Provides that daylight saving time shall be the year-round standard time of the entire State. Makes other changes. LRB104 05905 BDA 15936 b A BILL FOR HB1400 LRB104 05905 BDA 15936 b 1 AN ACT concerning government. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Time Standardization Act is amended by 5 changing Section 1 as follows: 6 (5 ILCS 440/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 3201) 7 Sec. 1. Notwithstanding how time is advanced pursuant to 8 the federal Uniform Time Act of 1966, 15 U.S.C. 260a, at At two 9 o'clock ante meridian of the second Sunday in March of 2026 10 each year , the standard time in this State shall be advanced 11 one hour ; and thereafter, daylight saving time shall be the 12 year-round standard time of the entire State , and at two 13 o'clock ante meridian of the first Sunday in November of each 14 year the standard time in this State shall, by the retarding of 15 one hour, be made to coincide with the mean astronomical time 16 of the ninety degrees of longitude West from Greenwich, the 17 standard official time of which is described as United States 18 standard central time, so that between the second Sunday of 19 March at two o'clock ante meridian in each year and the first 20 Sunday in November at two o'clock ante meridian in each year 21 the standard time in this State shall be one hour in advance of 22 the United States standard central time: Provided, however, 23 that nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to be in HB1400 - 2 - LRB104 05905 BDA 15936 b 1 contravention of any federal law or authorized order of the 2 Interstate Commerce Commission with respect to the time zones 3 of the United States . And in all laws, statutes, orders, 4 judgments, rules and regulations relating to the time of 5 performance of any act of any officer or department of this 6 State, or of any county, township, city or town, municipal 7 corporation, agency or instrumentality of the State, or school 8 district or school authority or relating to the time in which 9 any rights shall accrue or determine, or within which any act 10 shall or shall not be performed by any person subject to the 11 jurisdiction of the State, and in all the public schools and in 12 all institutions of the State, or of any county, township, 13 city or town, municipal corporation, agency or instrumentality 14 of the State or school district or school authority, and in all 15 contracts or choses in action made or to be performed in the 16 State, it shall be understood and intended that the time shall 17 be the time prescribed in this Section. 18 If the date on which time is to be advanced one hour, the 19 date on which time is to be retarded one hour, or both, as set 20 forth under Section 260a of the federal Uniform Time Act of 21 1966 (15 U.S.C. 260a), as now or hereafter amended, 22 renumbered, or succeeded, differs from either or both of those 23 dates as set forth under this Section, then the dates set forth 24 under the federal law shall control and shall apply in 25 Illinois, notwithstanding the dates set forth in this Section. 26 (Source: P.A. 95-725, eff. 6-30-08 .) 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