Uses the current Federal Exemption on the books to skip out of daylight savings time. Goes to standard time.
Personally, if you want daylight savings time in your life, arrange with your boss to go to work earlier... But Either full time DST or full time standard is better than changing twice a year.
I hope it passes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 312.016, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) 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 subsection 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.
I don't care much either way, but I don't see why some people get upset by changing the clock 1 hour twice a year.
If we adopt one or the other, then I say DST. Some businesses, like our club, base operational hours on sunset or something close to sunset. During DST, our latest operational hours are 8:30PM. If we go to Standard Time, then the latest will be 7:30PM and as early as 5:30PM.
If I could choose one or the other, I would go with DST.
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PriestTheRunner wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 3:41 pm
Filed as HB 49.
Personally, if you want daylight savings time in your life, arrange with your boss to go to work earlier...
That's not possible for me, and i doubt it is possible for 90+% of the workforce. And since I live on rural property, there are always jobs waiting on me when I get home that should/need to be finished before dark. I'm definitely opposed to this one.
I say go with GMT and let businesses and clubs open and close when they choose, based on actual daylight or whatever else suits them, without government mandated closures based on arbitrary numbers on a clock or day of the week.
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Lynyrd wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 4:59 pm
...And since I live on rural property, there are always jobs waiting on me when I get home that should/need to be finished before dark. I'm definitely opposed to this one.
Same here. I would much rather stay on DST. During the winter months there's not enough daylight before leaving for work to get anything of consequence done and no daylight when I get home. It is hard enough to get motivated to work around the place when it's cold, but it's almost impossible when it is cold and dark.
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Lynyrd wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 4:59 pm
...And since I live on rural property, there are always jobs waiting on me when I get home that should/need to be finished before dark. I'm definitely opposed to this one.
Same here. I would much rather stay on DST. During the winter months there's not enough daylight before leaving for work to get anything of consequence done and no daylight when I get home. It is hard enough to get motivated to work around the place when it's cold, but it's almost impossible when it is cold and dark.
If it passes, I want more daylight after work.
In certain extreme situations, the law is inadequate. In order to shame its inadequacy, it is necessary to act outside the law to pursue a natural justice.
I really don't have an issue with changing the clock a couple times a year. It feels like we have been doing it since I can remember. At least 40 years.
There may be a medical reason to not switch between DST and Standard Time.
There are some studies that correlate the rate of fatal auto accidents to the 24-48 hours after the time is shifted.
A +16% increase on Day 1 post time change and +12% on Day 2 post time change.
That's quite a few fatal accidents. Studies suggest that it takes folks about a week to adapt to the time shift.
This is not legal advice.
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