relative to abolishing daylight saving time.

HB 1149 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION
26-2601
09/08

HOUSE BILL
1149

AN ACT
relative to abolishing daylight saving time.

SPONSORS: Rep. Horrigan, Straf. 10; Rep. Alexander Jr., Hills. 29

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

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ANALYSIS

This bill provides that New Hampshire shall abolish daylight savings time once Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Maine have all voted to do so.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in
bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [
in brackets and struckthrough.
]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
26-2601
09/08

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT
relative to abolishing daylight saving time.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Standard Time. Amend RSA 21:36 to read as follows:
21:36 Standard Time. The standard time within the state[
, except as hereinafter provided,
] shall be based on the mean astronomical time of the seventy-fifth degree of longitude west from Greenwich, known and designated by the federal statute as "Eastern Standard Time." [
At 2 o'clock ante-meridian of the second Sunday in March of each year, the standard time in this state shall be advanced one hour, at 2 o'clock ante-meridian of the first Sunday in November of each year, the standard time in this state shall, by the retarding of one hour, be made to coincide with the astronomical time hereinbefore described as Eastern Standard Time, so that between the second Sunday in March at 2 o'clock ante-meridian and the first Sunday in November at 2 o'clock ante-meridian in each year the standard time in this state shall be one hour in advance of the United States Standard Time.
] In all laws, statutes, orders, decrees, rules, and regulations relating to the time of performance by any officer or department of this state, or of any county, city, town, or district thereof, or relating to the time in which any rights accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall not be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of this state, or of any county, city, town, or district thereof, and in all contracts or choses in action made or to be performed in this state, it shall be understood and intended that the time shall be as set forth in this section.

2 Contingency. Section 1 of this act shall take effect on January 1 in the first year following certification by the secretary of state to the director of the office of legislative services that he or she has received certifications from the secretaries of state of Vermont, Maine, and Rhode Island, and the secretary of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, of the enactment by law in each jurisdiction of a permanent year-round “Eastern Standard Time,” in substantially the same form as section 1.

3 Effective Date.
I. Section 1 of this act shall take effect as provided in section 2 of this act.
II. The remainder of this act shall take effect upon its passage.