Bill Text: TX SJR68 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment exempting this state from daylight saving time.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-26 - Referred to State Affairs [SJR68 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-SJR68-Introduced.html
  87R833 MCK-D
 
  By: Bettencourt, Menéndez S.J.R. No. 68
 
 
 
A JOINT RESOLUTION
  proposing a constitutional amendment exempting this state from
  daylight saving time.
         BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is amended by
  adding Section 74 to read as follows:
         Sec. 74.  The state, acting under the exemption provisions
  of Section 3(a), Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S.C. Section
  260a(a)), is exempt from the provisions of that law that establish
  daylight saving time. The exemption provided by this section
  applies to both the portion of the state using central standard time
  as the official standard time and the portion of the state using
  mountain standard time as the official standard time.
         SECTION 2.  The following temporary provision is added to
  the Texas Constitution:
         TEMPORARY PROVISION. (a)  This temporary provision applies
  to the constitutional amendment proposed by the 87th Legislature,
  Regular Session, 2021, exempting this state from the provisions of
  federal law that establish daylight saving time.
         (b)  The constitutional amendment takes effect March 1,
  2022.
         (c)  This temporary provision takes effect on the adoption of
  the constitutional amendment by the voters and expires September 1,
  2022.
         SECTION 3.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
  submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 2, 2021.
  The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
  proposition: "The constitutional amendment exempting this state
  from daylight saving time."
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