Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §1-253 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§1-253. Time zone.
The United States Eastern Standard Time shall be in effect in
all parts of the Commonwealth except during the
period when the United States Eastern Daylight Time shall be in effect as
provided by federal law at
all times. The Commonwealth, and
all political subdivisions thereof, shall
not observe daylight saving time and shall be exempt from the daylight saving
time provisions of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15
U.S.C. §260a(a)). This
section shall not be construed to be in contravention of (i)
federal law, or; (ii) duly authorized orders
of the United States Secretary of Transportation with respect to the time zones
of the United States and the application of standard time to interstate
commerce and other matters within such zones; or
(iii) the time for performance of an act by an officer or department of the
United States as established by statute, order, rule, or regulation of the
United States or an agency thereof.
In all laws, statutes, orders, decrees, rules, and regulations relating to
the time of performance of any act by any officer or agency of the
Commonwealth, or any political subdivision thereof, or relating to the time in
which any rights shall accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or
shall not be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the
Commonwealth, and in all public schools, institutions of the Commonwealth or
its political subdivisions, and contracts or choses in action made or to be
performed in the Commonwealth, it shall be understood and intended that the
time applicable thereto or referred to or implied therein shall be the United
States Eastern Standard Time, or the United States
Eastern Daylight Time, when and during such is in effect.
2. That the provisions of this act shall become effective on November 4, 2018.