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Lawmakers Propose Ending Daylight Savings Time

The bill would implement permanent standard time in Washington state.

Washington state lawmakers are making another bipartisan attempt to end daylight saving time. Republican state Senator Jeff Wilson and Democratic state Senator Manka Dhingra introduced SB 5001 earlier this week. The bill would implement permanent standard time in Washington state. A similar bill failed to gain any traction this year. State lawmakers passed a law in 2019 to implement permanent daylight saving time, but that law cannot go into effect unless Congress approves a federal policy.

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