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S. 29 119th Congress Senate

Sunshine Protection Act of 2025

Official title: A bill to make daylight saving time permanent, and for other purposes.

Introduced: January 7, 2025 Introduced by: Rick Scott Republican · Florida See on congress.gov
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Jan 7, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Jan 7, 2025
Introduced in Senate
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What's happening now January 7, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Sunshine Protection Act of 2025

This bill makes daylight saving time the new, permanent standard time.

States with areas exempt from daylight saving time may choose the standard time for those areas.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 29: Sunshine Protection Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-29/
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"S. 29: Sunshine Protection Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-29/.
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S. 29, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-29/.
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