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AB-2868 Year-round daylight saving time.(2021-2022)

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Date Published: 05/05/2022 09:00 PM
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Amended  IN  Assembly  May 05, 2022
Amended  IN  Assembly  April 07, 2022

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 2868

Introduced by Assembly Member Choi

February 18, 2022

An act to amend Section 6808 of the Government Code, relating to computation of time.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 2868, as amended, Choi. Year-round daylight saving time.
Existing state law, Proposition 7, an initiative measure approved by the voters at the November 6, 2018, general election, sets the standard time for California and sets daylight saving time to begin each March and end each November. Proposition 7 allows the state to set the standard time to year-round daylight saving time if federal law authorizes the state to do so.
Existing federal law does not currently allow a state to set its standard time to year-round daylight saving time.
This bill would set California’s standard time to year-round daylight saving time after the federal government authorizes the state to do so, as specified.
Vote: 2/3   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YESNO   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 6808 of the Government Code is amended to read:

6808.
 (a) The standard time within the state is that of the fifth zone designated by federal law as Pacific standard time (15 U.S.C. Secs. 261 and 263).
(b) The standard time within the state shall advance by one hour during the daylight saving time period commencing at 2 a.m. on the second Sunday of March of each year and ending at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of November of each year.
(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (b), the Legislature may amend this section by a two-thirds vote to change the dates and times of the daylight saving time period, consistent with federal law, and, if federal law authorizes the state to provide for the year-round application of daylight saving time, the Legislature may amend this section by a two-thirds vote to provide for that application.
(d) Effective immediately after federal law authorizes the state to apply year-round daylight saving time, the standard time within in the state shall advance by one hour commencing at 2 a.m. on the second Sunday of the March following the effective date of the federal authorization. Subsequently, notwithstanding subdivision (b), the daylight saving time period will shall not end and will shall apply year-round.