Sunshine for Our Kids Act of 2026

Key Points

• The bill would repeal the federal daylight saving time law, making standard time the permanent default across the entire country.
• States would get to choose whether to opt into daylight saving time instead, either year-round or for part of the year, as long as the whole state uses the same time.
• States split across multiple time zones can choose to apply the daylight saving option to the entire state or just to the part of the state within a specific time zone.
• The change would kick in on the first Sunday of November following the bill's enactment, meaning most Americans would stop springing their clocks forward the following March.
• The bill is named to highlight benefits for children's sleep and health, framing the end of mandatory clock changes as a family and public health issue.