S 5725: Relates to New York observing daylight savings time permanently.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5725 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 28, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the general construction law, in relation to observing daylight savings time permanently; and to repeal section 2-106 of the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to daylight savings time The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Legislative intent. If the United States Congress amends 15 2 U.S.C. section 260a to authorize states to observe daylight savings 3 time year-round, it is the intent of the legislature that daylight 4 savings time shall be the year-round standard time of the entire state 5 and all of its political subdivisions. 6 § 2. Section 52 of the general construction law, as amended by chapter 7 377 of the laws of 1955, is amended to read as follows: 8 § 52. Time, standard. [1.] The standard time throughout this state [is 9 that of the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich, 10 except as hereinafter provided, and all courts and public officers, and 11 legal and official proceedings, shall be regulated thereby. 12 2. At two o'clock ante meridian on the last Sunday in April of each 13 year the standard time throughout this state shall be advanced one hour 14 from that of the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Green- 15 wich, and the time so advanced shall continue to be standard time 16 throughout this state until the last Sunday in October of the same year, 17 when such standard time, as so advanced, shall be retarded to that of 18 the seventy-fifth meridian west from Greenwich; and during such period 19 in each year all courts and public officers, and legal and official 20 proceedings, shall be regulated in accordance therewith] and all of the 21 political subdivisions therein shall be daylight savings time for the 22 eastern time zone of the United States. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09125-02-5 
 S. 5725 2 1 § 3. Section 2-106 of the administrative code of the city of New York 2 is REPEALED. 3 § 4. This act shall take effect at the earlier of two o'clock ante 4 meridian on the first Sunday of November next succeeding or two o'clock 5 ante meridian on the second Sunday of March next succeeding the amend- 6 ment of 15 U.S.C. section 260a permitting the state to observe daylight 7 savings time for the eastern time zone of the United States permanently; 8 provided that the secretary of state shall notify the legislative bill 9 drafting commission upon the occurrence of the amendment of 15 U.S.C. 10 section 260a permitting the state to observe daylight savings time for 11 the eastern time zone of the United States permanently in order that the 12 commission may maintain an accurate and timely effective data base of 13 the official text of the laws of the state of New York in furtherance of 14 effectuating the provisions of section 44 of the legislative law and 15 section 70-b of the public officers law.