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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
To make daylight saving time permanent, and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited as the Sunshine Protection Act of 2021 .
Making daylight saving time permanent
Repeal of temporary period for daylight saving time
Section 3 of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 ( 15 U.S.C. 260a ) is hereby repealed.
Advancement of standard time
The second sentence of subsection (a) of section 1 of the Act of March 19, 1918 (commonly known as the Calder Act ) ( 15 U.S.C. 261 ), is amended—
by striking 4 hours and inserting 3 hours ;
by striking 5 hours and inserting 4 hours ;
by striking 6 hours and inserting 5 hours ;
by striking 7 hours and inserting 6 hours ;
by striking 8 hours and inserting by 7 hours ;
by striking 9 hours and inserting 8 hours ;
by striking 10 hours; and inserting 9 hours; ;
by striking 11 hours and inserting 10 hours ; and
by striking 10 hours. and inserting 11 hours. .
Such section is further amended by—
redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); and
inserting after subsection (a) the following:
Standard time for certain states and areas
The standard time for a State that has exempted itself from the provisions of section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 ( 15 U.S.C. 260a(a) ), as in effect on the day before November 5, 2023, pursuant to such section or an area of a State that has exempted such area from such provisions pursuant to such section shall be, as such State considers appropriate—
the standard time for such State or area, as the case may be, pursuant to subsection (a) of this section; or
the standard time for such State or area, as the case may be, pursuant to subsection (a) of this section as it was in effect on the day before November 5, 2023.
Such section is further amended, in the second sentence, by striking Except as provided in section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 ( 15 U.S.C. 260a(a) ), the and inserting Except as provided in subsection (b), .
This Act and the amendments made by this Act take effect on November 5, 2023.
Passed the Senate March 15, 2022.
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