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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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Time Standardization Act is amended by
5changing 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
8subsection (b) becomes operative.
9    (2) At two o'clock ante meridian of the second Sunday in
10March of each year, the standard time in this State shall be
11advanced one hour, and at two o'clock ante meridian of the
12first Sunday in November of each year the standard time in this
13State shall, by the retarding of one hour, be made to coincide
14with the mean astronomical time of the ninety degrees of
15longitude West from Greenwich, the standard official time of
16which is described as United States standard central time, so
17that between the second Sunday of March at two o'clock ante
18meridian in each year and the first Sunday in November at two
19o'clock ante meridian in each year the standard time in this
20State shall be one hour in advance of the United States
21standard central time: Provided, however, that nothing in this
22Act shall be so construed as to be in contravention of any
23federal law or authorized order of the Interstate Commerce

 

 

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1Commission with respect to the time zones of the United
2States. And in all laws, statutes, orders, judgments, rules,
3and regulations relating to the time of performance of any act
4of any officer or department of this State, or of any county,
5township, city or town, municipal corporation, agency or
6instrumentality of the State, or school district or school
7authority or relating to the time in which any rights shall
8accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall not
9be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the
10State, and in all the public schools and in all institutions of
11the State, or of any county, township, city or town, municipal
12corporation, agency or instrumentality of the State, or school
13district or school authority, and in all contracts or choses
14in action made or to be performed in the State, it shall be
15understood and intended that the time shall be the time
16prescribed in this Section.
17    (3) If the date on which time is to be advanced one hour,
18the date on which time is to be retarded one hour, or both, as
19set forth under Section 260a of the federal Uniform Time Act of
201966 (15 U.S.C. 260a), as now or hereafter amended,
21renumbered, or succeeded, differs from either or both of those
22dates as set forth under this Section, then the dates set forth
23under the federal law shall control and shall apply in
24Illinois, notwithstanding the dates set forth in this Section.
25    (b)(1) This subsection (b) becomes operative on the first
26day of January in the first year following or coinciding with

 

 

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1the date upon which exemption from daylight saving time in the
2states of Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin takes effect.
3    (2) The standard time in this State shall be made to
4coincide year-round with the mean astronomical time of the
5ninety degrees of longitude West from Greenwich, the standard
6official time of which is described as United States standard
7central time in the Uniform Time Act of 1966, 15 U.S.C. 261 and
8263. The State, acting under the exemption provisions of the
9federal Uniform Time Act of 1966, 15 U.S.C. 260a, shall be
10exempt from the provisions of that law that establish daylight
11saving time. And in all laws, statutes, orders, judgments,
12rules, and regulations relating to the time of performance of
13any act of any officer or department of this State, or of any
14county, township, city or town, municipal corporation, agency
15or instrumentality of the State, or school district or school
16authority or relating to the time in which any rights shall
17accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall not
18be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the
19State, and in all the public schools and in all institutions of
20the State, or of any county, township, city or town, municipal
21corporation, agency or instrumentality of the State, or school
22district or school authority, and in all contracts or choses
23in action made or to be performed in the State, it shall be
24understood and intended that the time shall be the time
25prescribed in this Section.
26(Source: P.A. 95-725, eff. 6-30-08.)