00:00New York. As New Yorkers prepare to spring, their clocks forward an hour this weekend as daylight saving time begins. State Senator Joseph Griffo, R.C. Rome, and Assemblyman Angelo Santa Barbara, D. Rotterdam, continue their efforts make daylight saving time permanent in New York.
00:18Griffo and Santa Barbara recently wrote to legislators U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries,
00:33U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to urge them to support and consider federal legislation that would extend daylight saving time year-round.
00:44The Sunshine Protection Act. The bill has been reintroduced by Senator Marco Rubio of Florida with companion legislation introduced by U.S. Representative Verne Buchanan in the House.
00:58We believe that making daylight saving time permanent would be beneficial for New York and other states, they wrote to the con.
01:05Research and studies have indicated that moving clocks forward one hour in the spring and back in the fall can negatively affect the safety, health and well-being of the public.
01:17Observing daylight saving time year-round can lead to energy savings and reductions in crime and traffic accidents and increased economic activity, which helps businesses and the economy.
01:32As a result of the enactment of the Federal Uniform Time Act in 1966, most Americans advance their clocks by N.
01:39All states except for Hawaii and Arizona, as well as several U.S. territories, follow daylight saving time.
01:53For the last several years, Senator Griffo and Assemblyman Santa Barbara have introduced legislation that establishes daylight saving time as the year-round standard time of New York State and New York City.
02:09The change would be contingent upon a compact with neighboring states and the federal government passing legislation allowing states to adopt daylight saving time as the permanent standard measure of time.
02:22Since the bill's introduction, the legislators have continued to communicate, collaborate and coordinate with their legislative colleagues in other states regarding this issue.
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