HB 1223 Oklahoma House · 2026 Regular Session

Daylight saving time; mandating year-round standard time; effective date.

HB 1223, titled the "Wyman West Actual Lock the Clock Act," would have mandated Oklahoma adopt year-round standard time (no daylight saving time changes) starting November 2, 2025, if federal law permitted states to observe daylight saving time year-round. It would have applied to all state and local government operations within Oklahoma, though it explicitly exempted federal regulations governing interstate commerce and federal agencies. The bill required the state to switch to standard time permanently after the November 2, 2025, clock change, with an effective date of November 1, 2025. However, the bill failed on March 25, 2025, with 40 votes in favor and 54 against.

Bill status failed 2 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Mar 2025

House Failed

Mar 2025

Governor

Introduced Feb 3, 2025 Last action Mar 25, 2025

Maddy AI version diff · 3 comparisons

What changed between versions

Proposed Policy Committee Substitute 1 → Floor (House) · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was amended to replace the committee version with the final House floor version, which updates the list of co-authors to include Senate members and reorganizes the text structure. The core policy regarding year-round standard time and the effective date of November 1, 2025, remains unchanged.

Scope change

The scope of the bill's applicability to the state and its subdivisions remains the same; the change is procedural, reflecting the bill's progression from committee to the full House floor.

TECHNICAL

The list of bill sponsors was updated to include additional co-authors (Maynard, Miller, Lepak, Fugate, Frix, and Standridge) who joined the original sponsor, Kevin West.

The document header was changed from 'Proposed Policy Committee Substitute' to 'House of Representatives - Floor Version' to reflect the bill's current stage in the legislative process.

The text layout and section numbering were reorganized to conform to the official floor version format, though the substantive legal content of the act remains identical.

Floor votes · House Mar 25, 2025

How they voted

41–54

Failed · 5 other

Total votes 100

Mar 25, 2025

D Democratic19

10 Yea 9 Nay

52% Yea

R Republican81

31 Yea 45 Nay 5

55% Nay

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Mar 25, 2025

Vote failed

House Vote: fail (41-54-5)

house

Mar 10, 2025

Lower · Passed

CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Government Oversight Committee

lower

Feb 25, 2025

Lower · Passed

Policy recommendation to the Government Oversight committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute General Government

lower

Feb 4, 2025

Committee

Referred to General Government

lower

Feb 3, 2025

Introduced

First Reading

lower

2 primary · 0 co-sponsors