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H.R. 1398 · 98th CongressFailed

Energy Conservation Daylight Saving Act of 1983

Latest action. Failed of Passage in House by Yea-Nay Vote: 199 - 211 (Record Vote No: 253). · July 14, 1983

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What this bill would do
Official summary · Congressional Research Service

(Reported to House from the Committee on Energy and Commerce with amendment, H. Rept. 98-80) Energy Conservation Daylight Saving Act of 1983 - Amends the Uniform Time Act of 1966 to start daylight saving time the first Sunday in March rather than the last Sunday of April. Continues a State's right to preempt such time changes. Directs the Federal Communications Commission to make necessary adjustments in the operation of daytime standard amplitude modulation broadcast stations.

Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Reported to House with amendment(s)" stage on May 3, 1983. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.

Status
Introduced
In committee
Failed of passage
July 14, 1983
Where this sits in the process
Common questions
Composed from the official record
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?

This bill failed the vote the record describes below. A measure that fails is not revived; the same text has to be introduced again as a new measure.

The record's latest action, on July 14, 1983: Failed of Passage in House by Yea-Nay Vote: 199 - 211 (Record Vote No: 253).

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?

RICHARD OTTINGER (D-NY) introduced it on February 10, 1983, and 14 members have since signed on as cosponsors.

They come from both major parties: 9 Democrats, 5 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.

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

  1. House
    Did not advance · July 14, 1983
  2. Senate
    Not reached
  3. President
    Not reached
No recorded votes yet
No roll call in this Congress cites this bill. Most bills die in committee without ever reaching a recorded floor vote.