Bill Text: IL HB5114 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Time Standardization Act. Exempts the State from daylight saving time requirements under the federal Uniform Time Act of 1966.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-08 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB5114 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB5114-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning government.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Time Standardization Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing Section 1 as follows:
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6 | (5 ILCS 440/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 3201) | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 1. (a)(1) This subsection (a) becomes inoperative if | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | subsection (b) becomes operative. | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | (2) At two o'clock ante meridian of the second Sunday in | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | March of each year, the standard time in this State shall be | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | advanced one hour, and at two o'clock ante meridian of the | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | first Sunday in November of each year the standard time in this | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | State shall, by the retarding of one hour, be made to coincide | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | with the mean astronomical time of the ninety degrees of | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | longitude West from Greenwich, the standard official time of | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | which is described as United States standard central time, so | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | that between the second Sunday of March at two o'clock ante | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | meridian in each year and the first Sunday in November at two | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | o'clock ante meridian in each year the standard time in this | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | State shall be one hour in advance of the United States | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | standard central time: Provided, however, that nothing in this | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | Act shall be so construed as to be in contravention of any | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | federal law or authorized order of the Interstate Commerce |
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1 | Commission with respect to the time zones of the United | ||||||
2 | States. And in all laws, statutes, orders, judgments, rules , | ||||||
3 | and regulations relating to the time of performance of any act | ||||||
4 | of any officer or department of this State, or of any county, | ||||||
5 | township, city or town, municipal corporation, agency or | ||||||
6 | instrumentality of the State, or school district or school | ||||||
7 | authority or relating to the time in which any rights shall | ||||||
8 | accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall not | ||||||
9 | be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the | ||||||
10 | State, and in all the public schools and in all institutions of | ||||||
11 | the State, or of any county, township, city or town, municipal | ||||||
12 | corporation, agency or instrumentality of the State , or school | ||||||
13 | district or school authority, and in all contracts or choses | ||||||
14 | in action made or to be performed in the State, it shall be | ||||||
15 | understood and intended that the time shall be the time | ||||||
16 | prescribed in this Section. | ||||||
17 | (3) If the date on which time is to be advanced one hour, | ||||||
18 | the date on which time is to be retarded one hour, or both, as | ||||||
19 | set forth under Section 260a of the federal Uniform Time Act of | ||||||
20 | 1966 (15 U.S.C. 260a), as now or hereafter amended, | ||||||
21 | renumbered, or succeeded, differs from either or both of those | ||||||
22 | dates as set forth under this Section, then the dates set forth | ||||||
23 | under the federal law shall control and shall apply in | ||||||
24 | Illinois, notwithstanding the dates set forth in this Section. | ||||||
25 | (b)(1) This subsection (b) becomes operative on the first | ||||||
26 | day of January in the first year following or coinciding with |
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