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Proposition 7 doesn't immediately change anything. It authorizes the state legislature to change the DST rules if authorized by federal law. Reading the text o
by _kst_ 8y ago
Proposition 7 doesn't immediately change anything. It authorizes the state legislature to change the DST rules if authorized by federal law.
Reading the text of the revised law, it does seem to emphasize the possibility of going to year-round DST as opposed to year-round Standard Time (which is what I would prefer).
One thing I'm not clear about is how the state legislature didn't already have this authority. Prop 7 doesn't change the state constitution, just the state Government Code.
https://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2018/general/pdf/topl.pdf#prop7 https://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2018/general/pdf/topl.pdf#prop7
- dragonwriter 8y ago> One thing I'm not clear about is how the state legislature didn't already have this authority. Prop 7 doesn't change the state constitution, just the state Government Code. The relevant Government Code provision establishing DST was adopted by the voters (not the Legislature on its own) and, therefore, the legislature can't change it unilaterally, only by sending an amending statute to the voters.
- masonic 8y agoit passed by less than the required % of votes in the legislature ... but existing law (1949 Prop 12) has been ignored for decades anyway.