NY State Senate Bill 2021-S3813

Senate Bill S3813

2021-2022 Legislative Session

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

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Jan 31, 2021	referred to judiciary

2021-S3813 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A6443
Current Committee:: Senate Judiciary
Law Section:: General Construction Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §52, Gen Con L; amd §2-106, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2019-2020: S9077
2023-2024: S1929, A3535
2025-2026: S3380

2021-S3813 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2021-S3813 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S3813

SPONSOR: GRIFFO
 
TITLE OF BILL:

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

 
PURPOSE:

The purpose of this bill is to establish Daylight Saving Time as the
standard time throughout the year for New York State.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends the general construction law to establish the observa-
tion of eastern daylight time year-round.

Section 2 amends the administrative code of the city of New York to

establish the observation of eastern daylight time year-round.

Section 3 marks the effective date, which is contingent upon the enact-
ment of similar legislation in the neighboring states of Connecticut,
Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Vermont.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Currently, states are only permitted to exempt themselves from observing
Daylight Saving Time, not establish its permanence. This bill, should it
become law, would allow the state to establish Daylight Saving Time as
the permanent year-round time, contingent upon the repeal of the federal
law establishing Daylight Saving Time.  There is active federal legis-
lation to abolish Daylight Saving Time; however, studies show that it is
the transition out of Daylight Saving Time, which leads to an increase
in car accidents, causes more on-site work incidents, and disrupts the
health of all who are subject to this time change.

This bill would, once there is a repeal of the federal law establishing
Daylight Saving Time, allow New York to enter into a compact with neigh-
boring states to establish Daylight Saving Time as the state's year
round time.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2020 - S. 9077 - Rules Committee.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect upon the enactment into law by the states of
Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania of
legislation having an identical effect with this act.

2021-S3813 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3813
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 31, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 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:
 
   Section  1.  Section 52 of the general construction law, as amended by
 chapter 377 of the laws of 1955, is amended to read as follows:
   § 52. Time, standard. [1.] The standard time throughout this state  is
 [that  of  the  seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich,
 except as hereinafter provided, and all courts and public officers,  and
 legal and official proceedings, shall be regulated thereby.
   2.  At  two  o'clock ante meridian on the last Sunday in April of each
 year the standard time throughout this state shall be advanced one  hour
 from  that  of  the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Green-
 wich, and the time so  advanced  shall  continue  to  be  standard  time
 throughout this state until the last Sunday in October of the same year,
 when  such  standard  time, as so advanced, shall be retarded to that of
 the seventy-fifth meridian west from Greenwich; and during  such  period
 in  each  year  all  courts  and public officers, and legal and official
 proceedings, shall be regulated in accordance  therewith]  THE  TIME  AS
 DETERMINED BY 15 USC SECTIONS 260 TO 267, EXCEPT THAT THE STATE OBSERVES
 YEAR-ROUND  THE  PROVISIONS OF 15 USC 260A PROVIDING FOR THE ADVANCEMENT
 OF TIME, COMMONLY KNOWN AS EASTERN DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME IF  FEDERAL  LAW
 PERMITS THE YEAR-ROUND OBSERVATION OF EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME.
   §  2. Section 2-106 of the administrative code of the city of New York
 is amended to read as follows:
   § 2-106 Daylight saving time; effect thereof  on  public  proceedings.
 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.

                                                            LBD04704-01-1

 S. 3813                             2

 ty-fifth  meridian  of longitude west from Greenwich, except that at two
 o'clock ante-meridian of the last Sunday in  April  of  each  year  such
 standard time throughout the city shall be advanced one hour, and at two
 o'clock  ante-meridian  of the last Sunday in October of each year, such
 standard time shall, by the retarding of one hour, be  returned  to  the
 mean  astronomical  time of the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west
 from Greenwich, and all courts, public offices and  legal  and  official
 proceedings shall be regulated thereby] THE TIME AS DETERMINED BY 15 USC
 SECTIONS  260  TO  267,  EXCEPT  THAT  THE  CITY OBSERVES YEAR-ROUND THE
 PROVISIONS OF 15 USC 260A PROVIDING FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TIME, COMMON-
 LY KNOWN AS EASTERN DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME  IF  FEDERAL  LAW  PERMITS  THE
 YEAR-ROUND OBSERVATION OF EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME.
   §  3.  This  act  shall take effect upon the enactment into law by the
 states of Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and  Pennsyl-
 vania  of  legislation  having an identical effect with this act, but if
 the states of Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Penn-
 sylvania shall have already enacted such  legislation,  section  one  of
 this  act  shall take effect immediately; provided that the secretary of
 state shall notify the legislative bill  drafting  commission  upon  the
 occurrence  of  the enactment of the legislation provided for in section
 one of this act in order that the commission may  maintain  an  accurate
 and  timely  effective data base of the official text of the laws of the
 state of New York in  furtherance  of  effectuating  the  provisions  of
 section  44  of the legislative law and section 70-b of the public offi-
 cers law.

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