Permanent mountain daylight saving time.

2017
STATE OF WYOMING
17LSO-0624
Introduced
1.2

SENATE FILE

NO.

SF0125

Permanent mountain daylight saving time.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Von Flatern and Representative(s) Laursen

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to daylight saving time; requiring an application for the state to transfer time zones; 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)

Congress enacted t
he federal Uniform Time Act of 1966
,
15

U.S.C. § 260 et seq.
,
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
(1)
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)

Before
January 1, 2018, 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 state of
Wyoming shall
exempt itself from the change to
daylight saving time, and
the uniform time within the state of Wyoming shall be coordinated universal time
delayed
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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