The states where daylight saving time legislation has already died this year

(NEXSTAR) – State lawmakers in more than half the U.S. have considered bills this year that would end the twice-a-year practice of changing the clocks. We’re hardly halfway through the year, and already, many of those bills have stalled out.

At least one bill in a dozen states has faced this fate. In some cases, the bills were struck down. In others, the legislative session ended, and the bills were left in committees.

A bill to lock the clocks in Georgia nearly passed this year. Last year, the bill passed the House, though it originally sought to make ambulance services in the state an essential service. The Senate rewrote the bill this year, changing it to end the seasonal clock change.

HB 154 would have called on the governor to petition U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to put the state in the Atlantic time zone, one hour advanced of its current spot in the Eastern time zone. Georgia would then have opted into year-round standard........

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