If a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers is successful, Americans may stop “springing forward.”
As the clock ticks down to March 9, the day that daylight saving time starts in 2025, legislators on both sides of the aisle are trying to make daylight saving time permanent.
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and 16 Senate colleagues introduced a bipartisan bill on Jan. 7, the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025, that would make the change permanent in the U.S., getting rid of the need to “fall back” and then “spring forward” by an hour each year.
Scott signed legislation in 2018 as governor of Florida that would allow the state to opt out of the practice of changing the time.
“I’m excited to have President [Donald] Trump back in the White House and fully on board to LOCK THE CLOCK, so we can get this good bill passed and make this commonsense change…
