Sunshine Protection Act of 2025

Sponsored by Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) · 34 active : 31 Republicans, 3 Democrats

Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

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Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate

Passed House

House: passedJul 14, 2026
Senate: next
President: not yet

9 senators score as swing votes

Summary

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Summary on Congress.gov

Sunshine Protection Act of 2025

This bill makes daylight saving time the new, permanent standard time.

States with areas exempt from daylight saving time may choose the standard time for those areas.

How the projections held up

Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.

House

On PassagePassed308 yea, 117 nayJuly 14, 2026 · Roll call 238

How members in each band voted on this House vote, by their projection before the vote
BandBand before the vote	VotedVoted yea or nay	BrokeBroke with party	Share
Swing	44	13	30%
Middle	196	58	30%
Entrenched	185	46	25%
All

Committees and subjects

Committees

House Committee on Energy and Commerce · HouseReferred to
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation · SenateReferred to

Subjects

State and local government operations
Time and calendar

Senate · 100 House · 433

Model

v3defaultv2

Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

How the House breaks down

38Swing 70–100
192Middle 30–70
201Entrenched 0–30
2Insufficient data not ranked

Members fall into . 2 representatives don’t have enough data yet and are marked “insufficient data”. Non-voting delegates are not counted. The bill is not before the House right now; these scores show where members would stand.

Key players in the House

Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2, directional

: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.

Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.

Similar past votes, House

Earlier behind swing-v3’s input

Similar votes count toward swing-v3 in the House: total similarity weight 8.0 (needs 5.0).

H.R. 139 · Jul 14, 2026 · Roll call 598On PassageSunshine Protection Act
PassedSame bill×3.0
H.R. 1717 · Jul 15, 2025 · Roll call 195On Motion to Suspend the Rules and PassCommunications Security Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 1534 · Mar 25, 2025 · Roll call 73On Motion to Suspend the Rules and PassIMPACT Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 8958 · Sep 23, 2024 · Roll call 1159On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as AmendedNASA Reauthorization Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 4510 · May 15, 2024 · Roll call 923On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as AmendedNTIA Reauthorization Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 4143 · May 8, 2024 · Roll call 913On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as AmendedNational Construction Safety Team Enhancement Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 4755 · Apr 29, 2024 · Roll call 872On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as AmendedPrivacy Enhancing Technology Research Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 4866 · Apr 29, 2024 · Roll call 871On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as AmendedFire Weather Development Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5

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H.R. 7521 · Mar 13, 2024 · Roll call 804On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as AmendedProtecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 1338 · Jul 25, 2023 · Roll call 364On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as AmendedSatellite And Telecommunications Streamlining Act
FailedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 1715 · May 9, 2023 · Roll call 203On Motion to Suspend the Rules and PassAdvanced Weather Model Computing Development Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5

Cosponsors

34 active · 1 withdrawn

Show all 35 cosponsors

Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA-1)
Dale W. Strong (R-AL-5)
Daniel Webster (R-FL-11)
Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA-7)
Dan Newhouse (R-WA-4) · withdrawn
Daniel Meuser (R-PA-9)
Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA-1)
Eric Burlison (R-MO-7)
Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL-27)
Stephanie I. Bice (R-OK-5)
Warren Davidson (R-OH-8)
John H. Rutherford (R-FL-5)
Richard McCormick (R-GA-7)
Cory Mills (R-FL-7)
Laurel M. Lee (R-FL-15)
Mike Haridopolos (R-FL-8)
Aaron Bean (R-FL-4)

How the swing score works

Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.

Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.

Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.

Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.

Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.

Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.