{"id":180611,"date":"2026-04-30T21:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180611\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T21:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:07:10","slug":"pennsylvania-lawmakers-propose-ending-daylight-saving-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180611\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania lawmakers propose ending daylight saving time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHOUSE. GOVERNOR SHAPIRO HAS SIGNALED HE WILL SIGN IT. ALSO IN HARRISBURG, IT\u2019S YET ANOTHER PUSH TO END DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME IN PENNSYLVANIA. CONTROVERSIAL TOPIC RIGHT? SO REPUBLICAN STATE REPRESENTATIVE RUSS DIAMOND HAS BIPARTISAN SUPPORT FOR A BILL THAT WOULD PUT THE COMMONWEALTH ON STANDARD TIME YEAR ROUND. HIS MEASURE REMAINS IN COMMITTEE, ALONGSIDE A DIFFERENT RESOLUTION URGING THE U.S. CONGRE\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania lawmakers propose ending daylight saving time<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769026991_958_wgal.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"WGAL logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 4:28 PM EDT Apr 30, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIn Harrisburg, Republican state Rep. Russ Diamond is spearheading a bipartisan push to end daylight saving time in Pennsylvania. Diamond is proposing a bill that would keep the commonwealth on standard time year-round.  His measure remains in committee, alongside a separate resolution urging the U.S. Congress to require all states to permanently observe daylight saving time year-round.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tHARRISBURG, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>In Harrisburg, Republican state Rep. Russ Diamond is spearheading a bipartisan push to end daylight saving time in Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n<p>Diamond is proposing a bill that would keep the commonwealth on standard time year-round.  <\/p>\n<p>His measure remains in committee, alongside a separate resolution urging the U.S. Congress to require all states to permanently observe daylight saving time year-round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSE. GOVERNOR SHAPIRO HAS SIGNALED HE WILL SIGN IT. ALSO IN HARRISBURG, IT\u2019S YET ANOTHER PUSH TO END&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[529,80585,8452,2479,2908,14039,16197,37,21672,539,28,30,9318,29,80583,80586,80584,67681,5838],"class_list":["post-180611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-bill","tag-bipartisan-push","tag-committee","tag-commonwealth","tag-dauphin-county","tag-daylight-saving-time","tag-effort","tag-harrisburg","tag-measure","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-lawmaker","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-republican-state-rep-russ-diamond","tag-separate-resolution","tag-standard-time-year-round","tag-state-lawmaker","tag-u-s-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}