# 119-hr-139: Sunshine Protection Act of 2025

119-hr-139, Sunshine Protection Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16] (R-FL); status passed_house (as of 2026-09-10).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-139
- Congress: 119
- Title: Sunshine Protection Act of 2025
- Status: passed_house
- Introduced: 2025-01-03
- Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16] (R-FL)
- Cosponsors: 34
- Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-10

## Summary

**Permanent daylight saving time** is the bill's main goal. This bill would make daylight saving time permanent nationwide by repealing the seasonal clock-change authority in the Uniform Time Act and by recalibrating the Calder Act's statutory hour offsets. - Families and households get more evening daylight year-round. - States that had exempted themselves from seasonal clock changes can choose to adopt the new statutory standard time framework or keep the standard time they used before enactment. - The measure rewrites the Calder Act’s hour offsets, shifting each time-zone offset by one hour and changing the statutory definition of legal time used by clocks and scheduling systems.

## Cosponsors (34)

- Rep. Mackenzie, Ryan [R-PA-7] (R-PA), 2025-01-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1] (R-PA), 2025-01-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Strong, Dale W. [R-AL-5] (R-AL), 2025-01-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Webster, Daniel [R-FL-11] (R-FL), 2025-01-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4] (R-WA), 2025-02-04T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Davidson, Warren [R-OH-8] (R-OH), 2025-02-04T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Salazar, Maria Elvira [R-FL-27] (R-FL), 2025-02-04T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Meuser, Daniel [R-PA-9] (R-PA), 2025-02-04T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Carter, Earl L. "Buddy" [R-GA-1] (R-GA), 2025-02-04T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Bice, Stephanie I. [R-OK-5] (R-OK), 2025-02-04T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Burlison, Eric [R-MO-7] (R-MO), 2025-02-04T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. McCormick, Richard [R-GA-7] (R-GA), 2025-02-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Rutherford, John H. [R-FL-5] (R-FL), 2025-02-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Mills, Cory [R-FL-7] (R-FL), 2025-02-14T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Haridopolos, Mike [R-FL-8] (R-FL), 2025-02-25T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lee, Laurel M. [R-FL-15] (R-FL), 2025-02-25T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Mace, Nancy [R-SC-1] (R-SC), 2025-03-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Boebert, Lauren [R-CO-4] (R-CO), 2025-03-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Ezell, Mike [R-MS-4] (R-MS), 2025-03-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Bean, Aaron [R-FL-4] (R-FL), 2025-03-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Moore, Barry [R-AL-1] (R-AL), 2025-03-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Luna, Anna Paulina [R-FL-13] (R-FL), 2025-04-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Obernolte, Jay [R-CA-23] (R-CA), 2025-04-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Houchin, Erin [R-IN-9] (R-IN), 2025-04-24T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Barrett, Tom [R-MI-7] (R-MI), 2025-07-14T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Rouzer, David [R-NC-7] (R-NC), 2025-08-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Golden, Jared F. [D-ME-2] (D-ME), 2025-09-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Suozzi, Thomas R. [D-NY-3] (D-NY), 2025-10-03T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-17] (R-TX), 2025-10-14T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Soto, Darren [D-FL-9] (D-FL), 2025-11-19T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-41] (R-CA), 2025-12-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Loudermilk, Barry [R-GA-11] (R-GA), 2026-03-27T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Hamadeh, Abraham J. [R-AZ-8] (R-AZ), 2026-06-08T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Kim, Young [R-CA-40] (R-CA), 2026-06-10T00:00:00.000Z

## Votes

| Date | Chamber | Question | Result | Yea | Nay |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-07-14T00:00:00.000Z | house | On Passage | Passed | 308 | 117 |

## Provisions PRIA read

- Permanent daylight saving time nationwide: mixed, high. If enacted, this bill would end the twice-a-year clock change. It would set year-round daylight saving time by moving each federal time zone one hour later. States that had opted out of daylight saving before enactment would be able to keep their prior time or adopt the new standard. The changes wo…

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## Sources
- [119-hr-139 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/139)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-139 (as of 2026-09-10).