In May, the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 48-1 in favor of the Sunshine Protection Act. The U.S. Senate voted unanimously in March 2022 to make daylight saving time permanent but the House never took up the measure in the face of opposition. The proposal the House will consider next week would allow states to opt out.
We wouldn’t be the only ones. Several countries, territories and islands have half hour offsets from their neighbors. A few even have ±15 minute offsets.