The Sunshine Protection Act of 2025 would make daylight saving time permanent in the United States. The bill repeals section 3 of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 and amends the Calder Act to advance the statutory standard time offsets by one hour. It also includes a provision letting States or areas that had previously exempted themselves from daylight saving time keep their prior standard time or adopt the new permanent daylight saving time.
If enacted, clocks would no longer change twice a year in places that follow the new rule. Most parts of the country would stay on daylight saving time year-round. States that had previously chosen to opt out (for example, before this bill’s enactment) can choose to keep their prior time or switch to the new permanent daylight saving time. The bill was introduced in the House on January 3, 2025, and the Senate had received it and referred it to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
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Sponsors listed in the bill metadata include Vern Buchanan, Ryan Mackenzie, Brian Fitzpatrick, Dale Strong, Daniel Webster, Dan Newhouse, Warren Davidson, Maria Salazar, Daniel Meuser, Earl Carter, Stephanie Bice, Eric Burlison, Richard McCormick, John Rutherford, Cory Mills, Mike Haridopolos, Laurel Lee, Nancy Mace, Lauren Boebert, Mike Ezell, Aaron Bean, Barry Moore, Anna Paulina Luna, Jay Obernolte, Erin Houchin, Tom Barrett, David Rouzer, Jared Golden, Thomas Suozzi, Pete Sessions, Darren Soto, Ken Calvert, Barry Loudermilk, Abraham Hamadeh, Young Kim, and Jimmy Patronis. No publicly available information about the sponsors' stated reasons or detailed arguments appears in the bill text.
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