Bill Text: NY A05733 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Eliminates daylight saving time.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A05733 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05733-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5733

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the general construction law, in relation to eliminating
          daylight  saving time; to amend the public service law, in relation to
          daylight saving time; and to repeal section 2-106 of  the  administra-
          tive code of the city of New York relating thereto

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 52 of the general construction law, as  amended  by
     2  chapter 377 of the laws of 1955, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  52.  Time,  standard. 1. The standard time throughout this state is
     4  that of the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude  west  from  Greenwich[,
     5  except  as hereinafter provided, and all courts and public officers, and
     6  legal and official proceedings, shall be regulated thereby]. The  state,
     7  acting  under  the  exemption provisions of the Uniform Time Act of 1966
     8  (15 U.S.C. Section 260a(a)), is exempt from the provisions of  that  law
     9  that establishes daylight saving time.
    10    2.  [At  two o'clock ante meridian on the last Sunday in April of each
    11  year the standard time throughout this state shall be advanced one  hour
    12  from  that  of  the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Green-
    13  wich, and the time so  advanced  shall  continue  to  be  standard  time
    14  throughout this state until the last Sunday in October of the same year,
    15  when  such  standard  time, as so advanced, shall be retarded to that of
    16  the seventy-fifth meridian west from Greenwich; and during  such  period
    17  in  each  year  all  courts  and public officers, and legal and official
    18  proceedings, shall be regulated in accordance therewith.] No  department
    19  or  agency of the state or of any county, city or other political subdi-
    20  vision shall employ any other time or adopt any  statute,  ordinance  or
    21  order providing for the use of any other standard of time.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    §  2.  Subparagraph 1 of paragraph (b) of subdivision 27 of section 66
     2  of the public service law, as amended by chapter  477  of  the  laws  of
     3  1991, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (1) the  hours  for  which such rates are available [for both standard
     5  and daylight savings time];
     6    § 3. Section 2-106 of the administrative code of the city of New  York
     7  is REPEALED.
     8    § 4. This act shall take effect January 1, 2024.