HB 119 — An Act amending the act of April 13, 1887 (P.L.21, No.18), entitled "An act for the establishment of a uniform standard of time throughout the Commonwealth," prohibiting the use of daylight saving time.

PRINTER'S NO.    101

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                         HOUSE BILL
                         No. 119
                                               Session of
                                                 2025

     INTRODUCED BY DIAMOND, ROAE, BANTA, JAMES, PIELLI, SOLOMON,
        CIRESI, KAUFFMAN, MARCELL AND KUZMA, JANUARY 16, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS AND
        OPERATIONS, JANUARY 16, 2025


                                    AN ACT
 1   Amending the act of April 13, 1887 (P.L.21, No.18), entitled "An
 2      act for the establishment of a uniform standard of time
 3      throughout the Commonwealth," prohibiting the use of daylight
 4      saving time.
 5      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 6   hereby enacts as follows:
 7      Section 1.    The General Assembly declares that the sole and
 8   uniform legal standard of time throughout this Commonwealth,
 9   including municipalities of this Commonwealth, shall be eastern
10   standard time and that daylight saving time shall not be used as
11   a standard of time.
12      Section 2.    Section 1 of the act of April 13, 1887 (P.L.21,
13   No.18), entitled "An act for the establishment of a uniform
14   standard of time throughout the Commonwealth," is amended to
15   read:
16      Section 1.    Be it enacted, &c., That [(a)] on and after the
17   first day of July, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and
18   eighty-seven, the mean solar time of the seventy-fifth meridian
 1   of longitude west of Greenwich, commonly called eastern standard
 2   time, shall be the sole and uniform legal standard of time
 3   throughout this Commonwealth; and on and after the date
 4   aforesaid all days shall everywhere be taken to begin and end in
 5   accordance with said standard; and every mention of, or
 6   reference to, any hour or time in any and all existing future
 7   acts of Assembly, municipal ordinances, and corporate bylaws, in
 8   any and all existing or future rules or regulations adopted by
 9   any public officer or official board, in any and all rules of
10   the courts of the Commonwealth or any of them, whether standing
11   or special, and whether now in force or hereafter to be
12   promulgated, in any and all orders, judgments and decrees of
13   said courts of any of them, and judgments and sentences of
14   magistrates pronounced or entered on or after the date
15   aforesaid, in any and all contracts, deeds, wills, and notices,
16   and in the transaction of all matters of business, public,
17   legal, commercial, or otherwise,--shall be construed with
18   reference to, and in accordance with, the said standard hereby
19   adopted, unless a different standard is therein expressly
20   provided for: Provided, however, That this act shall not operate
21   to impose upon any person any forfeiture of rights, or subject
22   him to the consequences of any default, by reason of any
23   failure, occurring prior to the date aforesaid, to comply with
24   the requirement of, or do any act under or in pursuance of any
25   law, ordinance, contract, notice, deed, will, regulation, rule,
26   order, judgment, sentence, or decree, if such person shall,
27   before the said date, have properly done the act or acts which
28   would be requisite to save such forfeiture or prevent such
29   default had this law not been enacted: And provided, further,
30   That when the standard time shall be advanced, for any portion

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 1   of the year, by any act of Congress, now in force or hereafter
 2   passed, the time so fixed by such act of Congress shall be the
 3   standard time of this Commonwealth for such portion of the year:
 4   And provided, That no county, city, borough, town, township, or
 5   other municipal subdivision of the Commonwealth shall, by
 6   ordinance, resolution, or rule, adopt a different standard of
 7   time for any year, or any portion of the year, than that herein
 8   provided; and all ordinances, resolutions and rules heretofore
 9   adopted, contrary to this proviso, are declared to be void and
10   of no effect.
11      [(b)   Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), the
12   standard of time in this State, between 2 o'clock antemeridian
13   on the last Sunday in April and 2 o'clock antemeridian on the
14   last Sunday in October of each year, shall be one hour in
15   advance of that prescribed above, commonly known as daylight
16   saving time.]
17      Section 3.   The amendment of section 1 of the act shall apply
18   to calendar years beginning on and after the effective date of
19   this section.
20      Section 4.   This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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