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Witness Urges Committee to Reject Move to Year-Round Daylight Time, Citing Health and Safety
Summary
A Safe Standard Time board member urged the Government Oversight and Reform Committee to oppose Senate Concurrent Resolution 6, warning that year-round daylight time reduces morning light, which he and medical groups link to worse sleep and safety outcomes; the committee held a second hearing and took no vote.
Chair Manchester called up Senate Concurrent Resolution 6 for its second hearing.
Michael Gerahan, a board member of Safe Standard Time, testified in opposition to SCR 6 and urged the committee not to advance the resolution. Gerahan said shifting to permanent daylight saving time reduces morning light that “helps us wake up” and that “working against that, as daylight saving time does at both ends, tends to…
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