SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1758 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE GRAGG.

4841H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk

AN ACT To amend chapter 1, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to daylight saving time.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Chapter 1, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be 2 known as section 1.355, to read as follows: 1.355. 1. There is hereby established the "Daylight Saving as New Standard 2 Time Pact" consisting of this state and any other state desiring to permanently change 3 daylight saving time to a new standard time. 4 2. The state of Missouri hereby exempts all areas of the state from the daylight 5 saving time provisions of 15 U.S.C. Section 260a, as amended. 6 3. On the effective date of this section, Missouri will switch clocks to daylight 7 saving time for the last time and daylight saving time will be eliminated. The time 8 formerly known as daylight saving time will become standard time. After this time, 9 Missouri will no longer observe daylight saving time. 10 4. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections 2 and 3 of this section to the 11 contrary, if the federal government adopts daylight saving time as the new standard 12 time, the state of Missouri shall set clocks to conform with the new standard time. ✔

EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.

Statutes affected:
Introduced (4841H.01): 1.355