[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1907 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1907

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 26, 1996

  Mr. Simpson introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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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 1996''.

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. EFFECTIVE 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) At any time subsequent to the adoption of such general rules, 
such general rules may be varied with respect to particular stations 
and areas because of the exigencies in each case.

SEC. 5. 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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