Sunshine Protection Act of 2023
Latest action. Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mr. Steube. Petition No: 118-19. (<a href="https://clerk.house.gov/DischargePetition/2024111419?Page=2&CongressNum=118">discharge petitionA House maneuver that forces a bill out of a committee that refuses to act, if 218 members, a majority, sign on publicly.Read the full definition (opens a new tab)</a> text with signatures.)
Sunshine Protection Act of 2023
This bill makes daylight saving time the new, permanent standard time.
States with areas exempt from daylight saving time may choose the standard time for those areas.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in House" stage on March 1, 2023. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
4 steps remain before this bill could become law.
The record's latest action, on November 14, 2024: Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mr. Steube. Petition No: 118-19. (<a href="https://clerk.house.gov/DischargePetition/2024111419?Page=2&CongressNum=118">Discharge petition</a> text with signatures.)
- Clearing the committees it was referred to, and being scheduled for a floor vote
- Passage by the House
- Passage by the Senate
- The President's signature. If the President vetoes it, two-thirds of both chambers must vote to override.
How likely is it to become law?
Civibrief does not forecast outcomes and this page has no opinion about this one. What the record supports is a base rate, which is a fact about the whole pile, not a prediction about this measure.
In the 118th Congress (2023-24), 274 of the 16,565 bills and joint resolutions introduced became law, about 1.7 percent. That count covers every measure at every stage, including the many that never left committee.
This one is not there yet: 4 steps are still outstanding, listed above.
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
Vern Buchanan (R-FL) introduced it on March 1, 2023, and 38 members have since signed on as cosponsors.
They come from both major parties: 3 Democrats, 35 Republicans.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
How long has it been in play?
It was introduced on March 1, 2023, 1289 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 665 days ago, on November 14, 2024.
Measures do not carry over. Anything the 118th Congress has not finished by January 3, 2025 dies when the term ends, and has to be introduced again from the start in the next Congress.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- HouseIn committee, no floor vote yet
- SenateAwaits House passage
- PresidentAwaits both chambers