Bill Text: TX HB744 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to daylight saving time.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB744 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB744-Introduced.html
| By: Bucy | H.B. No. 744 | |
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| relating to daylight saving time. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 312.016, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
| (d) This state, acting as authorized under federal law, | ||
| shall observe daylight saving time year-round. This subsection | ||
| applies to both the portion of this state using central standard | ||
| time as the official standard time and the portion of this state | ||
| using mountain standard time as the official standard time. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) Except as otherwise provided by this | ||
| section, this Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
| (b) This Act takes effect only if the United States Congress | ||
| enacts legislation that becomes law that authorizes the State of | ||
| Texas to observe daylight saving time year-round. If the United | ||
| States Congress does not enact legislation that becomes law | ||
| described by this subsection, this Act has no effect. | ||
