Mountain daylight saving time.

2017
STATE OF WYOMING
17LSO-0298
Introduced
1.2

HOUSE BILL

NO.

HB0049

Mountain daylight saving time.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Laursen, Lindholm, McKim and Miller and Senator(s) Case, Driskill and Von Flatern

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to daylight saving time; requiring an application for the state to transfer time zones as specified; establishing a new uniform state time; making legislative findings; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.

(a)

The legislature finds that:

(i)

The federal Standard Time Act of 1918
,

65
P.L.
106
,
established standard time zones for the United
States bounded by designated meridian lines, including the
zone designated as United States standard
mountain
time in which the state of Wyoming is placed, and the standard time zone designation
s
have since become geographic names of regional identity;

(ii)

The fed
eral Uniform Time Act of 1966
,
15 U.S.C. § 260 et seq.
,
was enacted by congress to "promote the adoption and observance of uniform time within the standard time zones" of the United States
.

It
established an annual advancement from standard time in March of each year, commonly called "
daylight saving time
" and annual return to standard time approximately eight
(8)
months later;

(iii)

T
he
federal
Uniform Time Act of 1966 authorizes a state that is entirely situated within one time zone, as is the state of Wyoming, to exempt itself from the change to
daylight saving time
as long as it does so uniformly as an entire state;

(iv)

The residents and businesses of the state of Wyoming have become
more
habituated to the eight
(8)
months of
daylight saving time
per year than the four
(4)
months of standard time per year; and

(v)

The
biannual
change of time between
mountain standard time
and mountain
daylight saving time
is disruptive to commerce and to the daily schedules of the residents of the state of Wyoming.

Section
2
.

(a)

Prior to January 1, 201
8
, the governor shall apply to the United States secretary of

transportation for the state of
Wyoming
to be transferred to

the
zone designated as United States standard central time by
the federal Standard Time Act

of 1918.

(b)

Upon approval of a transfer to the zone
designated as United States standard central time
by the United States secretary of transportation, the uniform time
within the state of Wyoming shall be coordinated universal time offset by six
(6)
hours throughout the year.

(c)

The uniform time within the state of Wyoming shall be known as mountain
daylight saving time
.

Section 3.

This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

(END)

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