STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 53rd Legislature (2011)

HOUSE BILL 1259	By:	Rousselot

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to daylight saving time; exempting Oklahoma from the federal daylight saving time provision; authorizing future action; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 70 of Title 25, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A.  The standard time in Oklahoma shall be known as Central Standard Time.
B.  This section shall not be construed to affect the standard time established by United States law governing the movements of common carriers engaged in interstate commerce or the time for performance of an act by an officer or department of the United States, as established by a statute, lawful order, rule or regulation of the United States or an agency hereof.
C.  As authorized by the Uniform Time Act of 1966 as amended and notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary by the United States government relating to adoption of daylight saving time by all of the states, the State of Oklahoma elects to reject such time and elects to continue in force the terms of subsection A of this section relating to standard time in Oklahoma.
D.  The rejection of daylight saving time as provided for in this section may be changed by future legislative action.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2011.

53-1-5120	AM	12/22/10