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H3405 • 2025

An Act establishing permanent standard time within the Commonwealth to promote sleep and health

An Act establishing permanent standard time within the Commonwealth to promote sleep and health

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Sponsor
Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr.
Last action
2026-03-09
Official status
Accompanied a study order, see H5183
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act establishing permanent standard time within the Commonwealth to promote sleep and health

An Act establishing permanent standard time within the Commonwealth to promote sleep and health By Representative Puppolo of Springfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act establishing permanent standard time within the Commonwealth to promote sleep and health By Representative Puppolo of Springfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 3405) of Angelo J.
  • Puppolo, Jr., and others for legislation to establish standard time as the permanent time of the Commonwealth.
  • State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-03-09 House

    Accompanied a study order, see H5183

  2. 2025-07-12 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 07/22/2025 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1

  3. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight

  4. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act establishing permanent standard time within the Commonwealth to promote sleep and health
By Representative Puppolo of Springfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3405) of Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr., and others for legislation to establish standard time as the permanent time of the Commonwealth. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.

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Bill H.3405

SECTION 1. Chapter 4 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2020 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out section 10 and inserting in place thereof the following section: -

Section 10. The standard time within the commonwealth shall be permanent standard time and shall be exempt from the advancement of time as provided by the federal Uniform Time Act of 1966, 15 U.S.C. section 260(a). This section shall apply: to all laws, statutes, orders, decrees, rules and regulations relating to the time of performance of any act by any officer or department of the commonwealth, or of any county, city, town or district thereof, or any other political subdivision thereof; to all laws, statutes, orders, decrees, rules and regulations relating to the time in which any rights shall accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall not be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the commonwealth; in all the public schools and in all institutions of the commonwealth, or of any county, city, town or district thereof, or any other political subdivision thereof; and in all contracts or choses in action made or to be performed in the commonwealth.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect: (i) upon enactment by law of a permanent year-round “U.S. Eastern Standard Time” in the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, in substantially the same form as section 1; and (ii) upon a date agreed upon by all 5 states.

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