[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1553 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1553

To provide for daylight saving time on an expanded basis, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 31, 1993

  Mr. Markey (for himself and Mr. Moorhead) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for daylight saving time on an expanded basis, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Daylight Saving Time Extension Act 
of 1993''.

SEC. 2. DAYLIGHT SAVING EXTENDED TO START IN MARCH AND END IN NOVEMBER.

    Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S.C. 260a(a)) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking out ``first Sunday of April'' and inserting 
        in lieu thereof ``third Sunday of March''; and
            (2) by striking out ``last Sunday of October'' and 
        inserting in lieu thereof ``first Sunday of November''.

SEC. 3. EFFECT ON EXISTING STATE ELECTIONS.

    Any law in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act--
            (1) adopted pursuant to section 3(a)(2) of the Uniform Time 
        Act of 1966 by a State with parts thereof in more than one time 
        zone, or
            (2) adopted pursuant to section 3(a)(1) of such Act by a 
        State that lies entirely within one time zone,
shall be held and considered to remain in effect as the exercise by 
that State of the exemption permitted by such Act unless that State, by 
law, provides that such exemption shall not apply.

SEC. 4. ADJUSTMENT OF OPERATING HOURS OF DAYTIME BROADCASTERS.

    (a) Notwithstanding any other law or any regulation issued under 
any such law, the Federal Communications Commission shall, consistent 
with any existing treaty or other agreement, make such adjustment by 
general rules, or by interim action pending such general rules, with 
respect to hours of operation of daytime standard amplitude modulation 
broadcast stations, as may be consistent with the public interest, 
including the public's interest in receiving interference-free service.
    (b) Such general rules, or interim action, may include variances 
with respect to operating power and other technical operating 
characteristics.
    (c) Subsequent to the adoption of such general rules, they may be 
varied with respect to particular stations and areas because of the 
exigencies in each case.

SEC. 5. STUDY.

    The Secretary of Transportation shall conduct a study on the 
effects of 1 additional hour of daylight saving time from the first 
Sunday of June to the last Sunday of August. The study shall be 
completed no later than July 1, 1994.

SEC. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act shall take effect 60 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, except that if such effective date occurs in any calendar 
year after March 1, this Act shall take effect on the first day of the 
following year.

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