HB5114 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB5114

Introduced 2/8/2024, by Rep. Daniel Didech

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

5 ILCS 440/1

from Ch. 1, par. 3201

Amends the Time Standardization Act. Exempts the State from daylight saving time requirements under the federal Uniform Time Act of 1966.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Time Standardization Act is amended by changing Section 1 as follows:

(5 ILCS 440/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 3201)

Sec. 1. (a)(1) This subsection (a) becomes inoperative if subsection (b) becomes operative.

(2) At two o'clock ante meridian of the second Sunday in March of each year, the standard time in this State shall be advanced one hour, and at two o'clock ante meridian of the first Sunday in November of each year the standard time in this State shall, by the retarding of one hour, be made to coincide with the mean astronomical time of the ninety degrees of longitude West from Greenwich, the standard official time of which is described as United States standard central time, so that between the second Sunday of March at two o'clock ante meridian in each year and the first Sunday in November at two o'clock ante meridian in each year the standard time in this State shall be one hour in advance of the United States standard central time: Provided, however, that nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to be in contravention of any federal law or authorized order of the Interstate Commerce Commission with respect to the time zones of the United States. And in all laws, statutes, orders, judgments, rules, and regulations relating to the time of performance of any act of any officer or department of this State, or of any county, township, city or town, municipal corporation, agency or instrumentality of the State, or school district or school authority or relating to the time in which any rights shall accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall not be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the State, and in all the public schools and in all institutions of the State, or of any county, township, city or town, municipal corporation, agency or instrumentality of the State, or school district or school authority, and in all contracts or choses in action made or to be performed in the State, it shall be understood and intended that the time shall be the time prescribed in this Section.

(3) If the date on which time is to be advanced one hour, the date on which time is to be retarded one hour, or both, as set forth under Section 260a of the federal Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S.C. 260a), as now or hereafter amended, renumbered, or succeeded, differs from either or both of those dates as set forth under this Section, then the dates set forth under the federal law shall control and shall apply in Illinois, notwithstanding the dates set forth in this Section.

(b)(1) This subsection (b) becomes operative on the first day of January in the first year following or coinciding with the date upon which exemption from daylight saving time in the states of Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin takes effect.

(2) The standard time in this State shall be made to coincide year-round with the mean astronomical time of the ninety degrees of longitude West from Greenwich, the standard official time of which is described as United States standard central time in the Uniform Time Act of 1966, 15 U.S.C. 261 and 263. The State, acting under the exemption provisions of the federal Uniform Time Act of 1966, 15 U.S.C. 260a, shall be exempt from the provisions of that law that establish daylight saving time. And in all laws, statutes, orders, judgments, rules, and regulations relating to the time of performance of any act of any officer or department of this State, or of any county, township, city or town, municipal corporation, agency or instrumentality of the State, or school district or school authority or relating to the time in which any rights shall accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall not be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the State, and in all the public schools and in all institutions of the State, or of any county, township, city or town, municipal corporation, agency or instrumentality of the State, or school district or school authority, and in all contracts or choses in action made or to be performed in the State, it shall be understood and intended that the time shall be the time prescribed in this Section.

(Source: P.A. 95-725, eff. 6-30-08.)