... As the calendar turns to November, so, too, will our clocks turn back to standard time as daylight saving (not savings) time comes to an end. Several states were hoping to avoid the second seasonal time change this year, but only two miss out on gaining an hour of sleep on Sunday.
In all but four states, lawmakers brought forth bills aimed at "locking the clocks." (Technically, the tally is 14; more on that in a moment.)
There remain bills in Congress that could put the U.S. on permanent daylight saving time or give states more power to observe it themselves. One even earned an aptly-named hearing that Cher may have appreciated, only for a recent effort to fast-track it to be thwarted.
The same can be said for several of the seasonal time change-related bills introduced on the state level over the last year.
Some legislation passed, including a Senate concurrent resolution in California acknowledging the "health benefits of permanent standard time." Pennsylvania became the latest state to pass legislation calling on Congress to end the biannual changing of the clocks. Similar legislation has seemingly stalled in other states this year.
Two other states, Maine and Texas, passed bills to put their states on permanent daylight saving time, pending federal approval or action. They join eight other states that have done the same.
Those eight states " Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Wyoming " as well as Arizona and Hawaii, were among the 14 total states that saw no daylight saving time legislation brought forth during the current legislative session. The other four are New Hampshire, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont. ...
