Bill Text: NY A03535 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes daylight saving time as the year-round standard time of the state and the city of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A03535 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03535-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3535

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 3, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the general construction law and the administrative code
          of the city of New York, in relation to establishing  daylight  saving
          time  as  the year-round standard time in the state and in the city of
          New York

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section 52 of the general construction law, as amended by
     2  chapter 377 of the laws of 1955, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 52. Time, standard. [1.] The standard time throughout this state  is
     4  [that  of  the  seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich,
     5  except as hereinafter provided, and all courts and public officers,  and
     6  legal and official proceedings, shall be regulated thereby.
     7    2.  At  two  o'clock ante meridian on the last Sunday in April of each
     8  year the standard time throughout this state shall be advanced one  hour
     9  from  that  of  the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Green-
    10  wich, and the time so  advanced  shall  continue  to  be  standard  time
    11  throughout this state until the last Sunday in October of the same year,
    12  when  such  standard  time, as so advanced, shall be retarded to that of
    13  the seventy-fifth meridian west from Greenwich; and during  such  period
    14  in  each  year  all  courts  and public officers, and legal and official
    15  proceedings, shall be regulated in accordance  therewith]  the  time  as
    16  determined by 15 USC sections 260 to 267, except that the state observes
    17  year-round  the  provisions of 15 USC 260a providing for the advancement
    18  of time, commonly known as eastern daylight saving time if  federal  law
    19  permits the year-round observation of eastern daylight time.
    20    §  2. Section 2-106 of the administrative code of the city of New York
    21  is amended to read as follows:
    22    § 2-106 Daylight saving time; effect thereof  on  public  proceedings.
    23  The standard time throughout the city of New York is [that of the seven-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  ty-fifth  meridian  of longitude west from Greenwich, except that at two
     2  o'clock ante-meridian of the last Sunday in  April  of  each  year  such
     3  standard time throughout the city shall be advanced one hour, and at two
     4  o'clock  ante-meridian  of the last Sunday in October of each year, such
     5  standard time shall, by the retarding of one hour, be  returned  to  the
     6  mean  astronomical  time of the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west
     7  from Greenwich, and all courts, public offices and  legal  and  official
     8  proceedings shall be regulated thereby] the time as determined by 15 USC
     9  sections  260  to  267,  except  that  the  city observes year-round the
    10  provisions of 15 USC 260a providing for the advancement of time, common-
    11  ly known as eastern daylight saving time  if  federal  law  permits  the
    12  year-round observation of eastern daylight time.
    13    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect upon the enactment into law by the
    14  states of Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and  Pennsyl-
    15  vania  of  legislation  having an identical effect with this act, but if
    16  the states of Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Penn-
    17  sylvania shall have already enacted such  legislation,  section  one  of
    18  this  act  shall take effect immediately; provided that the secretary of
    19  state shall notify the legislative bill  drafting  commission  upon  the
    20  occurrence  of  the enactment of the legislation provided for in section
    21  one of this act in order that the commission may  maintain  an  accurate
    22  and  timely  effective data base of the official text of the laws of the
    23  state of New York in  furtherance  of  effectuating  the  provisions  of
    24  section  44  of the legislative law and section 70-b of the public offi-
    25  cers law.