Oregon– As your mother likely said, “If your friends wanted to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge would you do it?”
Well, that is what lawmakers are hoping will happen when comes to switching to permanent standard time.
In a late-day compromise this week, lawmakers rewrote the bill to say Oregon will switch to standard time if and when California and Washington do the same.
Sen. Kim Thatcher’s Senate Bill 1548 had just 15 senators on board when it first came up for a vote on Tuesday, one shy of success since it takes 16 “yes” votes to pass a bill in the 30-member Senate.
That sent the Republican Senator scrambling to change minds or find a solution just minutes before the Senate adjourned for the day. And change minds she did, with a trigger clause that said Oregon would only switch from daylight saving time to permanent standard time if and when Washington and California do the same.
Similar legislation died in Washington earlier this year, but efforts are alive and well in California and Idaho, where a bill was introduced late last week.