BILL NUMBER: AJR 56	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   127
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 5, 2000
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   AUGUST 25, 2000
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 22, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Longville

                        MARCH 29, 2000

   Assembly Joint Resolution No. 56--Relative to daylight saving
time.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AJR 56, Longville.  Daylight saving time.
   This measure would memorialize the President and the Congress to
enact legislation to allow states the opportunity to choose
year-round daylight saving time, in addition to standard time or the
current system of "traditional" daylight saving time.




   WHEREAS, On March 19, 1918, the United States first implemented
daylight saving time when "An act to preserve daylight and provide
standard time for the United States" (Public Law 89-387) was enacted
by the United States Congress as the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (Title
15, United States Code, Section 260 and following); and
   WHEREAS, The Uniform Time Act of 1966 required standard time to be
observed within established time zones; and
   WHEREAS, The Uniform Time Act of 1966 provided for "daylight
saving time" and declared that it begins on the last Sunday in April
and ends on the last Sunday in October; and
   WHEREAS, The states were provided, under the Uniform Time Act of
1966, with the option of exempting themselves from daylight saving
time and thereby placing the whole state on standard time all
year-round; and
   WHEREAS, In 1972, the Uniform Time Act of 1966 was amended by
Public Law 92-267 to allow states that are split by a time zone to
exempt one of the parts in a different time zone from daylight saving
time; and
   WHEREAS, In 1974, Congress enacted a trial period of year-round
daylight saving time beginning on January 6, 1974, and ending on
April 27, 1975; and
   WHEREAS, In 1986, Congress modified daylight saving time so that
it begins the first Sunday in April rather than the last Sunday in
April; and
   WHEREAS, Due to the vast geographic area of the United States,
encompassing several time zones and many longitudes and latitudes,
even within a single state, many states have large disparities in
what time coincides with the onset of darkness; and
   WHEREAS, In House of Representatives Report No. 99-185 from the
Committee on Energy and Commerce, numerous benefits are listed in
support of the extension of daylight saving time, including
significant energy conservation, improved traffic safety, reduction
in crime, economic growth, and overwhelming public support; and
   WHEREAS, Congressional history provides precedent for modifying
the times and options prescribed by the Uniform Time Act of 1966 and
daylight saving time to allow some flexibility; now, therefore, be it

   Resolved by the Assembly and Senate of the State of California,
jointly, That the Legislature of the State of California respectfully
memorializes the United States Congress and the President of the
United States to enact legislation to allow states the opportunity to
choose year-round daylight saving time, in addition to standard time
or the current system of "traditional" daylight saving time; and be
it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the President and Vice President of the United
States, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to each
Senator and Representative from California in the Congress of the
United States.