Bill Text: IL SB2926 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Time Standardization Act. Exempts the State from daylight saving time requirements under the federal Uniform Time Act of 1966.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-11-05 - Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Chris Balkema [SB2926 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-SB2926-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026SB2926 Introduced 1/27/2026, by Sen. Jil Tracy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
5 ILCS 440/1 from Ch. 1, par. 3201
Amends the Time Standardization Act. Exempts the State from daylight saving time requirements under the federal Uniform Time Act of 1966.
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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 5. The Time Standardization Act is amended by
changing Section 1 as follows:
(5 ILCS 440/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 3201)
Sec. 1. (a)(1) This subsection (a) becomes inoperative if
subsection (b) becomes operative.
(2) At two o'clock ante meridian of the second Sunday in
March of each year, the standard time in this State shall be
advanced one hour, 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

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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 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.
(3) 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.
(b)(1) This subsection (b) becomes operative on the first
day of January in the first year following or coinciding with

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the date upon which exemption from daylight saving time in the
states of Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin takes effect.
(2) The standard time in this State shall be made to
coincide year-round 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 in the Uniform Time Act of 1966, 15 U.S.C. 261 and
263. The State, acting under the exemption provisions of the
federal Uniform Time Act of 1966, 15 U.S.C. 260a, shall be
exempt from the provisions of that law that establish daylight
saving time. 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 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.
(Source: P.A. 95-725, eff. 6-30-08.)