To allow States to elect to observe year-round daylight saving time, and for other purposes.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1474.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ROGERS of Alabama, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 44, March 8, 2023, Page H1208):
  Section 8 of Article 1 of the Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: Daylight Savings Time
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 8, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  107 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 1474, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/1474

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 5, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  dbd0fff5d9a56d40fae36155d35fe84e29a3ab5422270d9f86378d51fdfb7a5c

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of December 5, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1474, last updated December 5, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.