One thing that they are doing right.
If some legislators have their way, time could be running out on the need to switch Washington clocks for Daylight Saving Time.
Less than 12 hours before the official “spring forward”, the House approved Saturday a bill that would keep the state on Daylight time year-round.
Rep. Marcus Riccelli, the bill’s sponsor, said studies show an increase in traffic collisions and some medical problems like strokes after the semi-annual time changes.
“We’re on Daylight Saving Time eight months of the year already,” Riccelli said. California, Oregon and Idaho all have movements to stay on Daylight Saving Time year-round, he added.
“The interest is there,” he added, including in Celeste Simone’s 3rd Grade Class at Prairie View Elementary School in the Mead School District, where students have followed the progress of the bill ever since he visited to talk to them about bills before the Legislature. The latest count from the class shows students overwhelmingly in favor, he said.
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