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HB1223 • 2026

Daylight saving time; mandating year-round standard time; effective date.

Daylight saving time; mandating year-round standard time; effective date.

Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor
West (Kevin)
Last action
2025-03-25
Official status
Third Reading, Measure failed: Ayes: 40 Nays: 54
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Daylight saving time; mandating year-round standard time; effective date.

Daylight saving time; mandating year-round standard time; effective date.

What This Bill Does

  • Daylight saving time; mandating year-round standard time; effective date.
  • Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 1223 (House): Introduced (2/14/2025) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 1223 (House): Proposed Policy Committee Substitute 1 (2/26/2025) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 1223 (House): Proposed Policy Committee Recommendation (3/5/2025) Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 1223 (House): Committee Substitute (3/14/2025)

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Filed

Plain English: Req.

  • Req.
  • No.
  • 12870 Page 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 STATE OF OKLAHOMA 1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025) POLICY COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION FOR HOUSE BILL NO.
  • 1223 By: West (Kevin) POLICY COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION An Act relating to daylight saving time; creating the Wyman West Actual Lock the Clock Act; amending Section 1, Chapter 161, O.S.L.
Filed

Plain English: HB1223 POLPCS1 Kevin West-MJ 2/10/2025 1:24:13 pm AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS Amendment submitted by: Kevin West Adopted: _____________________________ ______________________________________ Reading Clerk COMMITTEE AMENDMENT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State of Oklahoma SPEAKER: CHAIR: I move to amend HB1223 Of the printed Bill Page Section Lines Of the Engrossed Bill By deleting the content of the entire measure, and by inserting in lieu thereof the following language: Req.

  • HB1223 POLPCS1 Kevin West-MJ 2/10/2025 1:24:13 pm AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS Amendment submitted by: Kevin West Adopted: _____________________________ ______________________________________ Reading Clerk COMMITTEE AMENDMENT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State of Oklahoma SPEAKER: CHAIR: I move to amend HB1223 Of the printed Bill Page Section Lines Of the Engrossed Bill By deleting the content of the entire measure, and by inserting in lieu thereof the following language: Req.
  • No.
  • 12298 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 STATE OF OKLAHOMA 1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025) PROPOSED POLICY COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE BILL NO.
  • 1223 By: West (Kevin) PROPOSED POLICY COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE An Act relating to daylight saving time; creating the Wyman West Actual Lock the Clock Act; amending Section 1, Chapter 161, O.S.L.

Bill History

  1. 2025-03-25 House

    General Order

  2. 2025-03-25 House

    Coauthored by Representative(s) Sneed

  3. 2025-03-25 House

    Third Reading, Measure failed: Ayes: 40 Nays: 54

  4. 2025-03-10 House

    CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Government Oversight Committee

  5. 2025-03-10 House

    Coauthored by Representative(s) Maynard, Miller, Lepak, Fugate

  6. 2025-03-10 House

    Authored by Senator Frix (principal Senate author)

  7. 2025-03-10 House

    Coauthored by Senator(s) Standridge

  8. 2025-02-25 House

    Policy recommendation to the Government Oversight committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute General Government

  9. 2025-02-04 House

    Second Reading referred to Government Oversight

  10. 2025-02-04 House

    Referred to General Government

  11. 2025-02-03 House

    First Reading

  12. 2025-02-03 House

    Authored by Representative West (Kevin)

Official Summary Text

Daylight saving time; mandating year-round standard time; effective date.
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 1223 (House): Introduced (2/14/2025)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 1223 (House): Proposed Policy Committee Substitute 1 (2/26/2025)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 1223 (House): Proposed Policy Committee Recommendation (3/5/2025)
Bill Summaries/Fiscal Impact for HB 1223 (House): Committee Substitute (3/14/2025)

Current Bill Text

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 1223 By: West (Kevin), Maynard,
Miller, Lepak, and Fugate
of the House

and

Frix and Standridge of the
Senate

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

An Act relating to daylight saving time; creating the
Wyman West Actual Lock the Clock Act; amending
Section 1, Chapter 161, O.S.L. 2024 (25 O.S. Supp.
2024, Section 90.29), which relates to daylight
saving standard; mandating year-round standard time;
providing for noncodification; and providing an
effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law not to be
codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows:
This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Wyman West
Actual Lock the Clock Act".

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SECTION 2. AMENDATORY Section 1, Chapter 161, O.S.L.
2024 (25 O.S. Supp. 2024, Section 90.29), is amended to read as
follows:
Section 90.29. A. If a federal law is passed that authorizes
states to observe daylight saving time year-round, Upon returning
to Standard Time on November 2, 2025, this state shall adopt
daylight saving standard time as the year-round standard of time for
the entire state and all its political subdivisions.
B. This section shall not be construed to affect the standard
time established by federal law governing the movement of common
carriers engaged in interstate commerce or the time for performance
of an act by an officer or department of the United States, as
established by a statute, lawful order, rule, or regulation of the
United States or an agency thereof.
SECTION 3. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT, dated
03/10/2025 - DO PASS, As Amended and Coauthored.