Daylight Act of 2026
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Daylight Act changes the federal time-zone statute by replacing existing U.S. time offsets with half-hour-adjusted offsets and repealing section 3 of the Uniform Time Act of 1966, the federal daylight-saving-time provision. The bill takes effect 90 days after enactment, so federal, state, commercial, transportation, broadcast, software, and scheduling systems would need to move to the new offsets quickly.
Who Benefits and How
People and businesses that prefer more evening daylight or a permanent federal time arrangement benefit from ending the recurring daylight-saving-time change. National scheduling systems, airlines, broadcasters, and software providers benefit in the long run from no longer switching clocks twice each year, assuming they complete the transition.
Who Bears the Burden and How
DOT and federal time administrators must implement new legal offsets and the repeal of daylight saving time. States, businesses, transportation operators, broadcasters, schools, hospitals, financial markets, device makers, and software platforms must update clocks, schedules, timetables, databases, and customer communications within 90 days. People in affected time zones bear adjustment costs if work, school, travel, or sleep schedules shift by 30 minutes.
Key Provisions
- Amends the Calder Act time-zone offsets by replacing current whole-hour offsets with half-hour-adjusted offsets.
- Repeals the Uniform Time Act daylight-saving-time provision.
- Requires the new time rules to take effect 90 days after enactment.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Repeals the federal daylight-saving-time provision and shifts U.S. statutory time-zone offsets by 30 minutes, effective 90 days after enactment.
Key Policy Areas
Transportation, Technology, Government
Primary Purpose
Repeals the federal daylight-saving-time provision and shifts U.S. statutory time-zone offsets by 30 minutes, effective 90 days after enactment.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Evening daylight advocates
- Airlines
- Software providers
- Broadcasters
- DOT
Identified Costs
- DOT
- State governments
- Transportation operators
- Schools
- Hospitals
- Software providers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced in House
Mr. Steube introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "dot"
- → Department of Transportation
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