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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. |
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1 | | AN ACT concerning government. |
2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
3 | | represented in the General Assembly: |
4 | | Section 5. The Time Standardization Act is amended by |
5 | | changing Section 1 as follows: |
6 | | (5 ILCS 440/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 3201) |
7 | | Sec. 1. (a)(1) This subsection (a) becomes inoperative if |
8 | | subsection (b) becomes operative. |
9 | | (2) At two o'clock ante meridian of the second Sunday in |
10 | | March of each year, the standard time in this State shall be |
11 | | advanced one hour, and at two o'clock ante meridian of the |
12 | | first Sunday in November of each year the standard time in this |
13 | | State shall, by the retarding of one hour, be made to coincide |
14 | | with the mean astronomical time of the ninety degrees of |
15 | | longitude West from Greenwich, the standard official time of |
16 | | which is described as United States standard central time, so |
17 | | that between the second Sunday of March at two o'clock ante |
18 | | meridian in each year and the first Sunday in November at two |
19 | | o'clock ante meridian in each year the standard time in this |
20 | | State shall be one hour in advance of the United States |
21 | | standard central time: Provided, however, that nothing in this |
22 | | Act shall be so construed as to be in contravention of any |
23 | | federal law or authorized order of the Interstate Commerce |
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1 | | Commission with respect to the time zones of the United |
2 | | States. And in all laws, statutes, orders, judgments, rules , |
3 | | and regulations relating to the time of performance of any act |
4 | | of any officer or department of this State, or of any county, |
5 | | township, city or town, municipal corporation, agency or |
6 | | instrumentality of the State, or school district or school |
7 | | authority or relating to the time in which any rights shall |
8 | | accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall not |
9 | | be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the |
10 | | State, and in all the public schools and in all institutions of |
11 | | the State, or of any county, township, city or town, municipal |
12 | | corporation, agency or instrumentality of the State , or school |
13 | | district or school authority, and in all contracts or choses |
14 | | in action made or to be performed in the State, it shall be |
15 | | understood and intended that the time shall be the time |
16 | | prescribed in this Section. |
17 | | (3) If the date on which time is to be advanced one hour, |
18 | | the date on which time is to be retarded one hour, or both, as |
19 | | set forth under Section 260a of the federal Uniform Time Act of |
20 | | 1966 (15 U.S.C. 260a), as now or hereafter amended, |
21 | | renumbered, or succeeded, differs from either or both of those |
22 | | dates as set forth under this Section, then the dates set forth |
23 | | under the federal law shall control and shall apply in |
24 | | Illinois, notwithstanding the dates set forth in this Section. |
25 | | (b)(1) This subsection (b) becomes operative on the first |
26 | | day of January in the first year following or coinciding with |
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1 | | the date upon which exemption from daylight saving time in the |
2 | | states of Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin takes effect. |
3 | | (2) The standard time in this State shall be made to |
4 | | coincide year-round with the mean astronomical time of the |
5 | | ninety degrees of longitude West from Greenwich, the standard |
6 | | official time of which is described as United States standard |
7 | | central time in the Uniform Time Act of 1966, 15 U.S.C. 261 and |
8 | | 263. The State, acting under the exemption provisions of the |
9 | | federal Uniform Time Act of 1966, 15 U.S.C. 260a, shall be |
10 | | exempt from the provisions of that law that establish daylight |
11 | | saving time. And in all laws, statutes, orders, judgments, |
12 | | rules, and regulations relating to the time of performance of |
13 | | any act of any officer or department of this State, or of any |
14 | | county, township, city or town, municipal corporation, agency |
15 | | or instrumentality of the State, or school district or school |
16 | | authority or relating to the time in which any rights shall |
17 | | accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall not |
18 | | be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the |
19 | | State, and in all the public schools and in all institutions of |
20 | | the State, or of any county, township, city or town, municipal |
21 | | corporation, agency or instrumentality of the State, or school |
22 | | district or school authority, and in all contracts or choses |
23 | | in action made or to be performed in the State, it shall be |
24 | | understood and intended that the time shall be the time |
25 | | prescribed in this Section. |
26 | | (Source: P.A. 95-725, eff. 6-30-08 .) |