S 7982: Eliminates daylight saving time.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7982 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE May 15, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- 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 eliminating daylight saving time; to amend the public service law, in relation to daylight saving time; and to repeal section 2-106 of the administra- tive code of the city of New York relating thereto The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 52 of the general construction law, as amended by 2 chapter 377 of the laws of 1955, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 52. Time, standard. 1. The standard time throughout this state is 4 that of the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich[, 5 except as hereinafter provided, and all courts and public officers, and 6 legal and official proceedings, shall be regulated thereby]. The state, 7 acting under the exemption provisions of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 8 (15 U.S.C. Section 260a(a)), is exempt from the provisions of that law 9 that establishes daylight saving time. 10 2. [At two o'clock ante meridian on the last Sunday in April of each 11 year the standard time throughout this state shall be advanced one hour 12 from that of the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Green- 13 wich, and the time so advanced shall continue to be standard time 14 throughout this state until the last Sunday in October of the same year, 15 when such standard time, as so advanced, shall be retarded to that of 16 the seventy-fifth meridian west from Greenwich; and during such period 17 in each year all courts and public officers, and legal and official 18 proceedings, shall be regulated in accordance therewith.] No department 19 or agency of the state or of any county, city or other political subdi- 20 vision shall employ any other time or adopt any statute, ordinance or 21 order providing for the use of any other standard of time. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07732-01-5 
 S. 7982 2 1 § 2. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph (b) of subdivision 27 of section 66 2 of the public service law, as amended by chapter 477 of the laws of 3 1991, is amended to read as follows: 4 (1) the hours for which such rates are available [for both standard 5 and daylight savings time]; 6 § 3. Section 2-106 of the administrative code of the city of New York 7 is REPEALED. 8 § 4. This act shall take effect January 1, 2026.