STATE OF NEW YORK
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5725
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 28, 2025
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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.
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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2 is REPEALED.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.
