Rep. Isaac Files “Texas Time” Bill To Abolish Daylight Saving Time
“Imagine that it’s 2017 and lawmakers have for the first time proposed arbitrarily changing our clocks twice a year. They would be publicly ridiculed!”
AUSTIN — Rep. Jason Isaac (R-Dripping Springs) has filed House Bill 2400 to abolish Daylight Saving Time.
“Imagine that it’s 2017 and lawmakers have for the first time proposed arbitrarily changing our clocks twice a year. They would be publicly ridiculed!” Rep. Isaac stated. “The fact is, Daylight Saving Time is an antiquated regulation that no longer serves our state’s needs.”
Numerous studies have suggested that Daylight Saving Time changes lead to an increase in car accidents and heart attacks. This is in addition to lost productivity due to sleep cycle disruptions causing fatigue, decreased alertness, decreased motivation, and tardiness.
“Daylight Saving Time has become an annoyance at best and a burden to our state at worst,” Rep. Isaac continued.
“In Texas, all state agencies go through a ‘sunset review’ process in which they have to prove their worth to the taxpayers who fund them — or be abolished. Outdated regulations should have to do the same. It’s time to let the sun set on Daylight Saving Time.”
Rep. Isaac is a fourth-generation native Texan who has served House District 45 since 2011. He is the vice president of the Texas Conservative Coalition, the conservative caucus in the Texas Legislature, and founding chair of the Hill Country Caucus. He is proud to represent Hays and Blanco counties and lives in Drippings Springs with his wife, Carrie, and two sons.
Don’t get rid daylight saving time get rid of standard time instead and keep daylight saving time year round so that doesn’t dark too early in the winter and decrease depression during the winter months. Getting home from work in the dark is too depressing so daylight saving time should stay year round.
Please use your time for something important , all your doing is making Texans angry ! Keep DST !!! Get to work !! Do something about education and housing, taxes anything but screwing with when we set our clocks !!
Daylight savings time, standard time, it doesn’t matter. The point should be: stop the practice of changing clocks twice a year. Pick one and stay with it. That is a good idea. And for the record, it doesn’t matter which one you pick. Within one 6-month cycle, no one remembers anyway… Just pick one and stay with it; stop the clock changes.
Don’t mess with this. DST is loved by many of us. Get rid of CDT instead or just don’t mess with. Much more important things to deal with.
I meant get rid of Standard Time.