Sunshine Protection Act of 2025

Overview

This bill, the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025, would make daylight saving time permanent throughout the United States by eliminating the twice-yearly clock changes. It repeals the section of federal law that established the current temporary daylight saving time period and adjusts the standard time zone offsets accordingly.

Key Provisions

• Repeals Section 3 of the Uniform Time Act of 1966, which currently authorizes the seasonal shift to daylight saving time.
• Amends the time zone boundary definitions in the 1918 Calder Act by shifting each listed hourly offset (e.g., 4 hours to 3 hours, 5 hours to 4 hours, etc.) to reflect a permanent, one-hour-shifted standard time nationwide.
• Allows states that previously opted out of observing daylight saving time to choose whether to adopt the new permanent standard time or keep their prior standard time as it existed before this Act.
• Updates cross-references in the law to reflect the repeal of the seasonal time-change provision and the addition of new opt-out language for states.

Potential Impact

If enacted, Americans would no longer switch clocks twice a year, with daylight saving time becoming the new year-round standard time, though states that previously did not observe daylight saving time (like Arizona and Hawaii) could choose to keep their current time instead.