Gov. Kay Ivey has signed a bill that would put Alabama on daylight saving time year-round if Congress amends federal law to allow states to do that.
The legislation came to the governor after near unanimous support among state lawmakers.
The Alabama House passed the bill 93-1 on May 6. The Senate had approved it by a vote of 29-0.
The sponsors are Sen. Steve Livingston, R-Scottsboro, and Rep. Ritchie Whorton, R-Owens Cross Roads.
“You go from March to November, one sort of time and switching to another time, it’s hard for folks to get used to the change,” Whorton said last week when the House passed the bill. “A lot of people not used to getting up to the morning, running late and having an accident.”
The United States has changed time twice-yearly for more than a century. Daylight saving time begins on the second Sunday in March. Clocks are set back one hour to standard time on the first Sunday of November.
The Alabama legislation is similar to bills or resolutions passed by 15 other states in the last four years, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Georgia and Louisiana adopted bills last year.
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