Bill Text: IL HB0424 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Time Standardization Act. Provides that daylight saving time shall be the year-round standard time of the entire State. Makes other changes. Effective July 1, 2017.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB0424 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB0424-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB0424 Introduced , by Rep. Steven A. Andersson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
5 ILCS 440/1 from Ch. 1, par. 3201
Amends the Time Standardization Act. Provides that daylight saving time shall be the year-round standard time of the entire State. Makes other changes. Effective July 1, 2017.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Time Standardization Act is amended by
changing Section 1 as follows:
(5 ILCS 440/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 3201)
Sec. 1. Notwithstanding how time is advanced pursuant to
the federal Uniform Time Act of 1966, 15 U.S.C. 260a, at At two
o'clock ante meridian of the second Sunday in March of 2018
each year, the standard time in this State state shall be
advanced one hour; and thereafter, daylight saving time shall
be the year-round standard time of the entire State , and at two
o'clock ante meridian of the first Sunday in November of each
year the standard time in this state shall, by the retarding of
one hour, be made to coincide with the mean astronomical time
of the ninety degrees of longitude West from Greenwich, the
standard official time of which is described as United States
standard central time, so that between the second Sunday of
March at two o'clock ante meridian in each year and the first
Sunday in November at two o'clock ante meridian in each year
the standard time in this state shall be one hour in advance of
the United States standard central time: Provided, however,
that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to be in

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contravention of any federal law or authorized order of the
Interstate Commerce Commission with respect to the time zones
of the United States. And in all laws, statutes, orders,
judgments, rules and regulations relating to the time of
performance of any act of any officer or department of this
State state, or of any county, township, city or town,
municipal corporation, agency or instrumentality of the State
state, or school district or school authority 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 State state, and in
all the public schools and in all institutions of the State
state, or of any county, township, city or town, municipal
corporation, agency or instrumentality of the State state or
school district or school authority, and in all contracts or
choses in action made or to be performed in the State state, it
shall be understood and intended that the time shall be the
time prescribed in this Section section.
If the date on which time is to be advanced one hour, the
date on which time is to be retarded one hour, or both, as set
forth under Section 260a of the federal Uniform Time Act of
1966 (15 U.S.C. 260a), as now or hereafter amended, renumbered,
or succeeded, differs from either or both of those dates as set
forth under this Section, then the dates set forth under the
federal law shall control and shall apply in Illinois,
notwithstanding the dates set forth in this Section.

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(Source: P.A. 95-725, eff. 6-30-08.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
2017.