HB 1075 - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
28Mar2024... 0572h
2024 SESSION
24-2338
02/05
HOUSE BILL 1075
AN ACT relative to abolishing daylight saving time.
SPONSORS: Rep. Horrigan, Straf. 10
COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration
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AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill provides that New Hampshire shall exempt itself from daylight saving time when authorized to do so by the United States Congress.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
28Mar2024... 0572h 24-2338
02/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT relative to abolishing daylight saving time.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Standard Time. Amend RSA 21:36 to read as follows:
21:36 Standard Time. The standard time within the state[, except as hereinafter provided, shall be based on the mean astronomical time of the seventy-fifth degree of longitude west from Greenwich, known and designated by the federal statute as "Eastern Standard Time." At 2 o'clock ante-meridian of the second Sunday in March of each year, the standard time in this state shall be advanced one hour, at 2 o'clock ante-meridian of the first Sunday in November of each year, the standard time in this state shall, by the retarding of one hour, be made to coincide with the astronomical time hereinbefore described as Eastern Standard Time, so that between the second Sunday in March at 2 o'clock ante-meridian and the first Sunday in November at 2 o'clock ante-meridian in each year the standard time in this state shall be one hour in advance of the United States Standard Time.] is the time as determined by 15 U.S.C. sections 260-267, except that the state observes year-round the provisions of 15 U.S.C. section 260a, providing for the advancement of time commonly known as eastern daylight saving time. In all laws, statutes, orders, decrees, rules, and regulations relating to the time of performance by any officer or department of this state, or of any county, city, town, or district thereof, or relating to the time in which any rights accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall not be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of this state, or of any county, city, town, or district thereof, and in all contracts or choses in action made or to be performed in this state, it shall be understood and intended that the time shall be as set forth in this section.
2 Contingency. Section 1 of this act shall take effect on the first date of January in the first year following or coinciding with the effective date of the United States Congress' amendment to 15 U.S.C. section 260a authorizing states to observe eastern daylight saving time year-round.
I. Section 1 of this act shall take effect as provided in section 2 of this act.
II. The remainder of this act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.