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TexasTowelie

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Wed Aug 24, 2016, 11:32 AM Aug 2016

Effort to roll back daylight saving time defeated in California Senate

Californians may not get to weigh in on daylight saving time after all.

The state Senate on Tuesday rejected Assembly Bill 385, which would have placed a measure on the ballot asking voters to dump the twice-annual changing of the clocks and keep California on standard time year-round. Only 17 members voted for the bill, four short of what it needed to advance.

Announced in February by Assemblyman Kansen Chu, D-San Jose, AB 385 became an instant cause célèbre among anti-daylight saving time partisans, who regard it as not only an irritant but a danger. Research suggests the risk of heart attacks, car crashes and workplace accidents rises in the days immediately after a time shift.

Yet logistical concerns about changing daylight saving time, which was instituted by voters in 1949 and would require another initiative to reverse, as well as emotional connections to the long-standing practice, ultimately won out in the Senate.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article97483107.html

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