Sunshine Protection Act of 2025
Latest action (Jul 15, 2026) — Received in the Senate and Read twice and on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
What it does
Congressional Research Service, Jan 3, 2025This bill makes daylight saving time the new, permanent standard time.
States with areas exempt from daylight saving time may choose the standard time for those areas.
Face Value
as passed the HouseHow much of this bill its name accounts for.
- Every bill starts at100
- Nothing counted against it: one area of law, and short enough that length doesn't register.
Face Value measures reach, not honesty. A big bill can be accurately named, and a low score is not an accusation — it means the contents reach further than any short title could describe. Count it yourself ↗ How this is worked out
What Congress did
1 recordeddecisive vote
House · Jul 14, 2026
Whether the bill passes the House. This is the vote most people mean.
Who lobbied on this
2 organizationsThese organizations told Congress, in their own quarterly disclosures, that they were lobbying on this bill.
- National Association of Broadcastersno position stated
“…Issues related to online platforms' use of broadcast content. H.Con.Res 12, Local Radio Freedom Act, All provisions. H.R. 139, Sunshine Protection Act of 2025, All provisions. H.R. 979, AM Radio For Every Vehicle Act, All provisions. H.R. 1880, Broadcast Freedom and…” filing ↗
- National Association of Mutual Insurance Companiesno position stated
“H.R.139 - To make daylight savings time permanent, and for other purposes. S.29 - A bill to make daylight saving time permanent, and for other…” filing ↗
Most filings say only that an organization lobbied on a bill, not which side it took — where that's the case we say so rather than guessing. Quotes are verbatim from the filing. How this is built.
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