OLYMPIA, Wash. — A bill that would have moved Washington into permanent standard time looks to have failed in the state legislature for the second year in a row.
Senate Bill 5795 was spearheaded by a bipartisan group of 13 lawmakers, representing a quarter of the state Senate. Despite that, it failed to make the cutoff to get voted out of committee earlier this week.
If it had been passed, Washington would have rolled its clocks back in November of 2024, and then stayed in standard time for good after that.
The state first attempted to end its time changes when lawmakers passed a bill to stay in daylight saving time year-round in 2019. Washington has been stuck waiting on federal approval to enact that ever since. A shift to standard time does not require any such approval and would go into effect right away.
