HB 1034 - Daylight Savings Time - A Citizen's Guide to Indiana

House Bill 1034 Daylight Savings Time. Repeals IC 1-1-8.1 which is the chapter of the Indiana Code that exempts Indiana from observation of “advanced time”. It is effective upon passage, so, if the bill were to pass after the first Sunday in April, Hoosiers would have to switch their clocks as soon as the Governor signed the bill.

This bill passed Second reading with only Representative Van Haaften’s Amendment having been added to the bill by a vote of 50 to 47. That bill requires the Dept. of Transportation to put up time zone signs on state highways, interstate highways, and the toll road when you cross from Central to Eastern Time. (I wonder if U.S. highways that aren’t Interstates are included in the provision.)

Amendments that failed were:

Rep. Crooks’ Amendment to urge Gov. Daniels to petition the U.S. Dept. of Transportation to put most of Indiana in the Central Time Zone (failed 46-48);

Rep. Crooks’ Amendment to have a referendum on whether most of Indiana should be put in the Central Time Zone (failed 47-51);

Rep. Grubb’s Amendment to support any county executive seeking to change the county’s time zone (failed 43-54);

Rep. Grubb’s Amendment for a referendum on the question of whether most counties should be put in the Central Time Zone (failed 44-53); and

Rep. Grubb’s Amendment that would keep Standard Time in place for those counties in the Eastern Time Zone except the counties around Cincinnati and Louisville (failed 44-53).

I had a couple of prior entries that looked at the nuts & bolts of the laws governing Daylight Savings Time here and here.

HB 1034 – Daylight Savings Time

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