Filed in the Florida Senate 12/15/2017, and signed by governor on 3/23/2018, Florida House Bill 1013 rocketed through the process. That time well spent pertained to Daylight Saving Time, and the effort was to put Florida on DST full time instead of part time.
The bill itself simply provides for an "if," "then" scenario. To wit:
If the United States Congress amends 15 U.S.C. s. 260a to authorize states to observe daylight saving time year- round, it is the intent of the Legislature that daylight saving time shall be the year-round standard time of the entire state and all of its political subdivisions.
So it's really up to the federal government to allow them to reset their clocks. It's too bad they have to go hat in hand to the feds to plead for permission to do this. But if that's what it takes, we should hope that it works.
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1:00 PM 5/21/2018
P.S. If you're tempted to suggest that Florida take a page from the sanctuary state manual and simply go their own way, let's not even go there. We still need to live with the law, even if we disagree with it.
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