H 3405

HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 800  FILED ON: 1/13/2025
 HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 3405
  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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  PRESENTED BY:
  Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr.
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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
        Court assembled:
        The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:
 An Act establishing permanent standard time within the Commonwealth to promote sleep and
  health.
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  PETITION OF:
NAME:  DISTRICT/ADDRESS:  DATE ADDED:
Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr.  12th Hampden  1/13/2025
Rodney M. Elliott  16th Middlesex  1/28/2025
Natalie M. Higgins  4th Worcester  1/29/2025
Margaret R. Scarsdale  1st Middlesex  1/29/2025
Erika Uyterhoeven  27th Middlesex  1/29/2025
Danillo A. Sena  37th Middlesex  1/31/2025
James C. Arena-DeRosa  8th Middlesex  2/13/2025
Brian W. Murray  10th Worcester  2/13/2025
Lindsay N. Sabadosa  1st Hampshire  2/21/2025
Orlando Ramos  9th Hampden  4/9/2025
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  HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 800  FILED ON: 1/13/2025
      HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 3405
     By Representative Puppolo of Springfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3405) of
     Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr., and others for legislation to establish standard time as the permanent time
     of the Commonwealth. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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  In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court
  (2025-2026)
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     An Act establishing permanent standard time within the Commonwealth to promote sleep and
     health.
  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
     of the same, as follows:
 1  SECTION 1. Chapter 4 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2020 Official Edition, is
 2   hereby amended by striking out section 10 and inserting in place thereof the following section: -
 3  Section 10. The standard time within the commonwealth shall be permanent standard
 4   time and shall be exempt from the advancement of time as provided by the federal Uniform Time
 5   Act of 1966, 15 U.S.C. section 260(a). This section shall apply: to all laws, statutes, orders,
 6   decrees, rules and regulations relating to the time of performance of any act by any officer or
 7   department of the commonwealth, or of any county, city, town or district thereof, or any other
 8   political subdivision thereof; to all laws, statutes, orders, decrees, rules and regulations relating
 9   to the time in which any rights shall accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall
10   not be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the commonwealth; in all the public
11   schools and in all institutions of the commonwealth, or of any county, city, town or district
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12   thereof, or any other political subdivision thereof; and in all contracts or choses in action made or
13   to be performed in the commonwealth.
14  SECTION 2. This act shall take effect: (i) upon enactment by law of a permanent year-
15   round “U.S. Eastern Standard Time” in the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New
16   Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, in substantially the same form as section 1; and (ii) upon
17   a date agreed upon by all 5 states.
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