Bill Text: NY S09077 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-10-30 - REFERRED TO RULES [S09077 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S09077-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9077

                    IN SENATE

                                    October 30, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        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:

     1    Section  1.  Section 52 of the general construction law, as amended by
     2  chapter 377 of the laws of 1955, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 52. Time, standard. [1.] The standard time throughout this state  is
     4  [that  of  the  seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich,
     5  except as hereinafter provided, and all courts and public officers,  and
     6  legal and official proceedings, shall be regulated thereby.
     7    2.  At  two  o'clock ante meridian on the last Sunday in April of each
     8  year the standard time throughout this state shall be advanced one  hour
     9  from  that  of  the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Green-
    10  wich, and the time so  advanced  shall  continue  to  be  standard  time
    11  throughout this state until the last Sunday in October of the same year,
    12  when  such  standard  time, as so advanced, shall be retarded to that of
    13  the seventy-fifth meridian west from Greenwich; and during  such  period
    14  in  each  year  all  courts  and public officers, and legal and official
    15  proceedings, shall be regulated in accordance  therewith]  the  time  as
    16  determined by 15 USC sections 260 to 267, except that the state observes
    17  year-round  the  provisions of 15 USC 260a providing for the advancement
    18  of time, commonly known as eastern daylight saving time if  federal  law
    19  permits the year-round observation of eastern daylight time.
    20    §  2. Section 2-106 of the administrative code of the city of New York
    21  is amended to read as follows:
    22    § 2-106 Daylight saving time; effect thereof  on  public  proceedings.
    23  The standard time throughout the city of New York is [that of the seven-
    24  ty-fifth  meridian  of longitude west from Greenwich, except that at two
    25  o'clock ante-meridian of the last Sunday in  April  of  each  year  such
    26  standard time throughout the city shall be advanced one hour, and at two

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  o'clock  ante-meridian  of the last Sunday in October of each year, such
     2  standard time shall, by the retarding of one hour, be  returned  to  the
     3  mean  astronomical  time of the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west
     4  from  Greenwich,  and  all courts, public offices and legal and official
     5  proceedings shall be regulated thereby] the time as determined by 15 USC
     6  sections 260 to 267,  except  that  the  city  observes  year-round  the
     7  provisions of 15 USC 260a providing for the advancement of time, common-
     8  ly  known  as  eastern  daylight  saving time if federal law permits the
     9  year-round observation of eastern daylight time.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect upon the enactment  into  law  by  the
    11  states  of Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsyl-
    12  vania of legislation having an identical effect with this  act,  but  if
    13  the states of Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Penn-
    14  sylvania  shall  have  already  enacted such legislation, section one of
    15  this act shall take effect immediately; provided that the  secretary  of
    16  state  shall  notify  the  legislative bill drafting commission upon the
    17  occurrence of the enactment of the legislation provided for  in  section
    18  one  of  this  act in order that the commission may maintain an accurate
    19  and timely effective data base of the official text of the laws  of  the
    20  state  of  New  York  in  furtherance  of effectuating the provisions of
    21  section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the  public  offi-
    22  cers law.