Bill > HB1758

This bill establishes the "Daylight Saving as New Standard Time Pact," a pact that Missouri would join with any other state that wishes to permanently adopt daylight saving time as its new standard time. Specifically, this means that Missouri would exempt itself from the federal law (15 U.S.C. Section 260a) that currently mandates the observance of daylight saving time. Upon the bill's enactment, Missouri would set its clocks forward to daylight saving time one last time, and that time would then become the permanent standard time for the state, effectively eliminating the practice of changing clocks twice a year. However, if the federal government were to officially adopt daylight saving time as the new national standard, Missouri would then adjust its clocks to comply with that federal standard.