[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2536 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2536

 To make daylight savings time permanent for the State of Florida, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 12, 2018

   Mr. Rubio 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 make daylight savings time permanent for the State of Florida, 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 ``Sunshine State Act''.

SEC. 2. MARKING DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME PERMANENT FOR THE STATE OF 
              FLORIDA.

    (a) In General.--Section 1 of the Act of March 19, 1918, (commonly 
known as the ``Calder Act'') (15 U.S.C. 261) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), in the second sentence, by inserting 
        ``in subsection (c) of this section and'';
            (2) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (a) the following:
    ``(b) Exception.--The standard time of the State of Florida shall 
be Coordinated Universal Time retarded by 4 hours.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 3 of the Uniform Time Act of 
1966 (15 U.S.C. 260a) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Exemption.--This section shall not apply to the State of 
Florida.''.
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