By Sims S.B. No. 444 74R3852 MJW-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to daylight saving time. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 312.016, Government Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-6 (d) The state, acting under the exemption provisions of the 1-7 Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S.C. Section 260a(a)), is exempt 1-8 from the provisions of that law that establish daylight saving 1-9 time. The exemption provided by this subsection applies to both 1-10 the portion of the state using central standard time as the 1-11 official standard time and to the portion of the state using 1-12 mountain standard time as the official standard time. 1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.