US senators make new push to make Daylight Savings permanent

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Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla. made a new push Friday on bipartisan legislation that would make Daylight Savings permanent.

S. 582, also coined the Sunshine Protection Act, would make Daylight Savings permanent and add an hour to the day. The Senate unanimously passed the legislation in March 2022 but has been stalled since.

The bill would allow Arizona and Hawaii, which do not observe daylight saving time, to remain on standard time, as well as American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

THE END OF DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME CAN NEGATIVELY AFFECT YOUR HEALTH

"The antiquated biannual ritual of toggling between times isn’t just an inconvenience—it also has very real impacts on our economy, our energy consumption, and our health," Markey said in a statement released. "We know the sun will come out tomorrow, so let’s make that sun stay out an hour later by making Daylight Saving Time permanent and passing the Sunshine Protection Act. You can bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there’ll be sun … and smiles."

"We’re ‘springing forward’ but should have never ‘fallen back.’ My Sunshine Protection Actwould end this stupid practice of changing our clocks back and forth," Rubio also said in the announcement.

Florida Republican Sen. Rick