Florida Republican Rep. Vern Buchanan, who introduced the bill in January 2025, said Tuesday that changing hours disrupts work schedules “for no good reason.”
Now that the House has passed the legislation, the Senate could soon pass its version of the bill. However, his future there is uncertain.
“We’ll see what happens when it happens,” Sen. John Barrasso, the No. 2 Republican whose party has a slim majority in the upper chamber, said Tuesday.
Florida Republican Senator Rick Scott introduced a similar bill, also called the Sunshine Protection Act, in January 2025.
After World War I, the United States moved clocks forward in the summer to allow for more daylight in the afternoon and to save energy. The time change is known as Daylight Saving Time (DST). In the fall of each year, clocks are set back to return to standard time.
Daylight saving time, which also helped save fuel during World War I, was unpopular with farmers and was abolished after the war. It returned during World War II, and a law was passed in 1966 standardizing clock adjustments across the country, although some states, including Hawaii and Arizona, and the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, abandoned it.