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                                   5725
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 28, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the general construction law, in relation  to  observing
   daylight  savings time permanently; and to repeal section 2-106 of the
   administrative code of the city of New York in  relation  to  daylight
   savings time
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Legislative intent. If the United States Congress amends 15
 U.S.C.  section 260a to authorize states  to  observe  daylight  savings
 time  year-round,  it  is  the  intent  of the legislature that daylight
 savings time shall be the year-round standard time of the  entire  state
 and all of its political subdivisions.
   § 2. 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] AND ALL OF  THE
 POLITICAL  SUBDIVISIONS  THEREIN  SHALL BE DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME FOR THE
 EASTERN TIME ZONE OF THE UNITED STATES.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   § 3. Section 2-106 of the administrative code of the city of New  York
 is REPEALED.
   §  4.  This  act  shall take effect at the earlier of two o'clock ante
 meridian on the first Sunday of November next succeeding or two  o'clock
 ante  meridian  on the second Sunday of March next succeeding the amend-
 ment of 15 U.S.C. section 260a permitting the state to observe  daylight
 savings time for the eastern time zone of the United States permanently;
 provided  that  the secretary of state shall notify the legislative bill
 drafting commission upon the occurrence of the amendment  of  15  U.S.C.
 section  260a  permitting the state to observe daylight savings time for
 the eastern time zone of the United States permanently 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 officers law.