tvguy
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Voters passed it. The State Legislature first has to approve legislation to ask the Federal Government to allow California to no longer switch times. That bill is Assembly Bill 7, introduced in 2018 and the author asked it be left active but halt all committee hearings. That was June 4, 2019. He is apparently trying to get the hearing process restarted now. For some reason he introduced it with an Urgency Clause which means it needs 2/3 vote to pass. http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB7It was on the ballot and PASSED. But it only allowed California to stay one or the other IF the federal government passed legislation allowing states to decide. Or something like that.
Once the bill is passed by the Assembly, it goes to state Senate, then the Governor has to sign it before it goes to Congress for approval.
I'm old enough to remember January 1974 when President Nixon issued an emergency order changing the time so we had more daylight at night to save energy during the energy crisis. The negative to that was kids were walking to school or waiting for the school bus in the dark in the morning and getting hit by cars. I was a Junior in High School at the time. I think that despite voter approval, lawmakers are balking at ending the time change for safety reasons because after the election someone did some research and found out what a safety hazard not changing the time was.