Bill Text: CA AB2496 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Daylight Saving Time.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - Died at Desk. [AB2496 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2496-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2496	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chu

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act relating to Daylight Saving Time.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2496, as introduced, Chu. Daylight Saving Time.
   Existing federal law establishes the standard time of the United
States for each of 9 zones and advances the standard time of each
zone by one hour during the period commencing at 2 a.m. on the 2nd
Sunday of March of each year and ending at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday
of November of each year. Existing state law, the Daylight Saving
Time Act, which was adopted as an initiative measure by the voters at
the November 8, 1949, special election, provides that the standard
time within the state is that which is known, described, and
designated by federal law as United States Standard Pacific Time. The
act also requires, from 1 a.m. on the last Sunday of April, until 2
a.m. on the last Sunday of October, the standard time within the
state to be one hour in advance of United States Standard Pacific
Time.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to establish United States Standard Pacific Time as the
standard time within the state during the entire year.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to establish United States Standard Pacific Time as the
standard time within the state during the entire year.