Overview
- The House Rules Committee moved the Sunshine Protection Act to the floor on Monday, July 13, and the full House is scheduled to consider the bill this week.
- The measure would stop the biannual clock changes by making daylight saving time permanent nationwide while allowing states to opt out to remain on standard time.
- Supporters include a bipartisan group of House members, business and tourism groups, roughly 19–20 states that passed contingent laws, and President Donald Trump; the bill cleared Energy and Commerce 48–1 in May.
- Major medical, education and safety organizations oppose permanent daylight saving time on circadian‑health and child‑safety grounds, and lawmakers have introduced an alternative bill to make permanent standard time instead.
- Even if the House approves the bill it must pass the Senate and be signed by the president before clocks change, and supporters and critics point to past federal experiments in 1942 and 1974 as warnings about darker winter mornings and public backlash.