A Florida senator has presented a bill to exempt the state from Daylight Savings Time.
Senator Greg Steube’s proposed legislation states:
This state exempts itself and all of its political subdivisions from the observance of daylight saving time, between 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and 2 a.m. on the first Sunday in November of each calendar year...
An opposite measure was proposed in 2016 by U.S. Representative Darren Soto.
The Sunshine Protection Act would have adopted Daylight Savings Time as Florida’s time year-round, but the proposition died in the committee.
If Steube’s bill clears Legislature, Florida Gov. Rick Scott would be the only person needed to sign the bill to make it Florida law.
The law would then go into effect on Jan. 2, 2019.