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  • Daylight saving all the time proposed in state senate

    Madeline Coats, WNPA Olympia News Bureau|Mar 21, 2019

    Washington residents could vote to make daylight saving time year-round under a bill state senators passed on Tuesday, March 12. Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5139 was approved in a 46-3 vote, just two days after clocks were set forward. The measure is co-sponsored by a bipartisan group of five senators and was introduced by Sen. Jim Honeyford, R-Sunnyside. This is the third year in a row Honeyford has pitched the daylight saving bill. “With the time change, we find there's more auto accidents, more heart attacks, more strokes and c...