Bill Text: IL HB4224 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Time Standardization Act. Provides that Daylight Saving Time shall be the year-round standard time of the entire State.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB4224 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB4224-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB4224 Introduced , by Rep. Sue Scherer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
5 ILCS 440/1 from Ch. 1, par. 3201
Amends the Time Standardization Act. Provides that Daylight Saving Time shall be the year-round standard time of the entire State.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. This Act may be referred to as the Sunshine
Saving Act.
Section 3. Findings.
(a) The General Assembly finds and declares the following:
(1) Based upon federal requirements, the majority of
the states, including Illinois, advance the standard time
of the state by one hour on the second Sunday of March of
each year through the first Sunday of November, which
constitutes what is referred to as Daylight Saving Time.
(2) Daylight Saving Time lasts for 8 months, which
means that the citizens of this State live more months
under Daylight Saving Time than the standard time that
would exist without the time change due to Daylight Saving
Time.
(3) Studies have shown that making Daylight Saving
Time permanent could have the following benefits: (i)
reduce car crashes and accidents involving pedestrians;
(ii) reduce risk for cardiac issues, stroke, and seasonal
depression; (iii) reduce robberies, due to more daylight
in the evenings; (iv) increase economic activity; (v)

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reduce childhood obesity and increase physical fitness;
(vi) help the agricultural industry by eliminating
biannual disruptions in farmers' schedules and supply
chain partners; and (vii) reduce energy usage.
(4) Many states have introduced bills and resolutions
concerning Daylight Saving Time, including at least 19
states in the last 4 years that have enacted legislation
or passed resolutions to provide for year-round Daylight
Saving Time.
(b) Following the trend set by the many states of
legislation on the topic of Daylight Saving Time, the General
Assembly finds and declares that Daylight Saving Time should
be the year-round standard time of the entire State and that
this legislation is necessary for and beneficial to the people
of Illinois. The General Assembly further urges that the
Congress of the United States undertake the matter as well.
Section 5. The Time Standardization Act is amended by
changing Section 1 as follows:
(5 ILCS 440/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 3201)
Sec. 1. Notwithstanding how time is advanced pursuant to
the federal Uniform Time Act of 1966, 15 U.S.C. 260a, at At two
o'clock ante meridian of the second Sunday in March of 2023
each year, the standard time in this State shall be advanced
one hour; and thereafter, Daylight Saving Time shall be the

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year-round standard time of the entire State , and at two
o'clock ante meridian of the first Sunday in November of each
year the standard time in this State shall, by the retarding of
one hour, be made to coincide with the mean astronomical time
of the ninety degrees of longitude West from Greenwich, the
standard official time of which is described as United States
standard central time, so that between the second Sunday of
March at two o'clock ante meridian in each year and the first
Sunday in November at two o'clock ante meridian in each year
the standard time in this State shall be one hour in advance of
the United States standard central time: Provided, however,
that nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to be in
contravention of any federal law or authorized order of the
Interstate Commerce Commission with respect to the time zones
of the United States. And in all laws, statutes, orders,
judgments, rules and regulations relating to the time of
performance of any act of any officer or department of this
State, or of any county, township, city or town, municipal
corporation, agency or instrumentality of the State, or school
district or school authority or relating to the time in which
any rights shall accrue or determine, or within which any act
shall or shall not be performed by any person subject to the
jurisdiction of the State, and in all the public schools and in
all institutions of the State, or of any county, township,
city or town, municipal corporation, agency or instrumentality
of the State or school district or school authority, and in all

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contracts or choses in action made or to be performed in the
State, it shall be understood and intended that the time shall
be the time prescribed in this Section.
If the date on which time is to be advanced one hour, the
date on which time is to be retarded one hour, or both, as set
forth under Section 260a of the federal Uniform Time Act of
1966 (15 U.S.C. 260a), as now or hereafter amended,
renumbered, or succeeded, differs from either or both of those
dates as set forth under this Section, then the dates set forth
under the federal law shall control and shall apply in
Illinois, notwithstanding the dates set forth in this Section.
(Source: P.A. 95-725, eff. 6-30-08.)