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

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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

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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."