S. 29
119th Congress
Senate
Sunshine Protection Act of 2025
Official title: A bill to make daylight saving time permanent, and for other purposes.
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2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
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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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Plain-English summary
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.
Related & companion bills
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Bill text
1 version
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Lobbying activity
36
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIES
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS
- CROSSROADS STRATEGIES, LLC
- AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC. (D/B/A AIRLINES FOR AMERICA)
- SALEM MEDIA
- AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC. (D/B/A AIRLINES FOR AMERICA)
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Transportation, Dept of (DOT)
- Treasury, Dept of
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)
Cosponsors
18
R
Scott, Tim
R
Moody, Ashley
R
Britt, Katie Boyd
R
Blackburn, Marsha
R
Hagerty, Bill
D
Heinrich, Martin
R
Hyde-Smith, Cindy
R
Lankford, James
R
Lummis, Cynthia M.
D
Markey, Edward J.
D
Murray, Patty
D
Padilla, Alex
R
Paul, Rand
D
Schatz, Brian
D
Smith, Tina
R
Tuberville, Tommy
D
Whitehouse, Sheldon
D
Wyden, Ron
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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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