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H.R. 139119th CongressScience, Technology, Communications
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.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate9 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedJul 14, 2026
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govSunshine 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.
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
How the Senate breaks down
- 9Swing 70–100
- 62Middle 30–70
- 29Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
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, Senate
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
34 active · 1 withdrawnShow 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- Dan Newhouse (R-WA-4) · withdrawn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.
