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-HOUSE BILL 112
-57TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 2026
-INTRODUCED BY
-John Block
-AN ACT
-RELATING TO TIME; PROVIDING FOR DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME AS THE
-YEAR-ROUND STANDARD OF TIME FOR NEW MEXICO; PROVIDING A
-CONTINGENT EFFECTIVE DATE; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.
-BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
-SECTION 1.  [NEW MATERIAL] EXEMPTION FROM ANNUAL CHANGE OF
-TIME.--
-A.  New Mexico is exempt from the advancement of
-time or changeover dates pursuant to Section 260a of the
-federal Uniform Time Act of 1966, as that section may be
-amended or renumbered, and adopts daylight saving time as the
-year-round standard of time for the entire state and all its
-political subdivisions.
-B.  This section shall not be construed to affect
-the standard time established by federal law governing the
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-movement of common carriers engaged in interstate commerce or
-the time for performance of an act by an officer or a
-department of the United States, as established by a statute,
-lawful order, rule or regulation of the United States or an
-agency thereof.
-C.  As used in this section, "daylight saving time"
-means the federal standard time established pursuant to Section
-260a of the federal Uniform Time Act of 1966, as that section
-may be amended or renumbered, during the period commencing at 2
-o'clock antemeridian on the second Sunday of March of each year
-and ending at 2 o'clock antemeridian on the first Sunday of
-November of each year.
-SECTION 2.  APPROPRIATION.--One hundred thousand dollars
-($100,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the
-department of information technology for expenditure in fiscal
-years 2027 and 2028 for conversion of state information
-technology systems to permanent daylight saving time.  Any
-unexpended balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2028
-shall revert to the general fund.
-SECTION 3.  CONTINGENT EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date
-of the provisions of this act is the second Sunday of March or
-the first Sunday of November of a year, whichever occurs first,
-following the effective date of a federal law authorizing a
-state to exempt itself or a part of itself from Section 260a of
-the federal Uniform Time Act of 1966, as certified by the
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-secretary of transportation to the New Mexico compilation
-commission and the director of the legislative council service;
-provided that:
-A.  the state of Texas has enacted a law exempting
-Texas or a part of Texas that includes the county of El Paso,
-Texas, from Section 260a of the federal Uniform Time Act of
-1966 and has adopted daylight saving time for the state of
-Texas or a part of the state of Texas that includes El Paso,
-Texas; or
-B.  the county commission of El Paso county, Texas,
-has enacted an ordinance exempting El Paso county from Section
-260a of the federal Uniform Time Act of 1966 and has adopted
-daylight saving time.
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+Fiscal impact reports (FIRs) are prepared by the Le gislative Finance Committee (LFC) for standing finance
+committees of the Legislature. LFC does not assume responsibility for th e accuracy of these reports if they
+are used for other purposes.
+
+F I S C A L    I M P A C T    R E P O R T
+
+BILL NUMBER: House Bill 112
+SHORT TITLE: Daylight Saving Time Year-round
+SPONSOR: Block
+LAST
+UPDATE:
+ ORIGINAL
+DATE:
+
+ANALYST: Francis
+
+APPROPRIATION*
+(dollars in thousands)
+FY26 FY27 Recurring or
+Nonrecurring
+Fund
+Affected
+ $100.0** Nonrecurring General Fund
+*Amounts reflect most recent analysis of this legislation.
+** the appropriation is contingent on action by the federal government and is available for either FY 2027 or FY 2028
+
+ESTIMATED ADDITIONAL OPERATING BUDGET IMPACT*
+(dollars in thousands)
+Agency/Program FY26 FY27 FY28 3 Year
+Total Cost
+Recurring or
+Nonrecurring
+Fund
+Affected
+DOIT Choose an
+item. $150.0** Choose an
+item.  Nonrecurring General Fund
+Total Choose an
+item. $150.0 Choose an
+item.  Nonrecurring General Fund
+Parentheses ( ) indicate expenditure decreases.
+*Amounts reflect most recent analysis of this legislation.
+
+Sources of Information
+
+LFC Files
+
+Agency or Agencies Providing Analysis
+Department of Justice
+Department of Information Technology
+Tourism Department
+
+Agency or Agencies That Were Asked for Analysis but did not Respond
+Department of Transportation
+
+SUMMARY
+
+House Bill 112 (HB112) would exempt New Mexico  from the annual change of time from
+standard to daylight savings. The bill esta blishes daylight saving s time as the year-round
+standard time for the entire state.
+
+House Bill 112 appropriates $100 thousand from the general fund to Department of Information
+House Bill 112 – Page 2
+
+Technology (DOIT) for the purpose of conver ting state information technology systems to
+permanent daylight-saving time. The appropriation is availabl e over two years beginning in
+FY27 through FY28. Any unexpended balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2028 reverts to
+the general fund.
+
+The effective date of this bill is contingent on federal law authorizing a state to exempt itself
+from daylight savings time. The NM Departme nt of Transportation and Director of the
+Legislative Council Service will cer tify the date which must be afte r Texas, either as a whole or
+just the part that includes El Paso County have  enacted an exemption and has adopted daylight
+saving time.
+
+FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
+
+The appropriation of $100 thousand contained in  this bill is a nonrecurring expense to the
+general fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered ba lance remaining at the end of FY28 shall
+revert to the general fund. Note the effective date of this bill could be later than FY28 at which
+time the appropriation would revert.
+
+DOIT reports that the agency would need at  least $250 thousand to implement HB 112, $150
+thousand more than appropriated, to cover the following:
+ Engineering: Operating systems and time zone data updates and code audits across
+systems
+ Quality assurance: Regression testing in calendars, scheduling, logging
+ Patch deployment: For endpoints, servers, cloud services
+ Vendor integrations: Updates for ERP, BI, monitoring tools
+ Training and support: Runbook updates, help desk prep, user communications
+
+SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
+
+The federal Uniform Time Act of  1966 was enacted to promote th e adoption and observance of
+uniform time within the standard time zones of  the United States and established an annual
+advancement from standard time in the month of March each year  (daylight savings time) and
+back to standard time approximately eight mont hs later. The law allo ws states to exempt
+themselves from advancement from standard time if  the state is wholly within one-time zone.
+There is no provision for a state to advance to da ylight savings time on a permanent basis. In
+other words, under current federal law, a state ca n choose not to adopt da ylight saving time but
+cannot choose to maintain daylight saving time throughout the year.
+
+As a result, for this bill to go in to effect, the federal law would n eed to be changed or the state
+request an exception from the U.S. Secretary of Transportation.
+
+Texas passed a law in 2025 adopti ng year-round daylight-saving time  as have 18 other states.
+According to the bill an alysis statement for that law (Tex as HB 1393 2025), all of Texas would
+be on central standard time.
+1 Currently, part of Texas is in mountain time (El Paso). The analysis
+confirms the state can only exempt itself from ad opting daylight saving ti me and cannot exempt
+
+1 HB01393E.pdf
+House Bill 112 – Page 3
+
+itself from standard time until Congress allows it.
+
+Tourism Department (TD) raises concerns about causing confusion or logistical issues:
+Changing to year-round MDT could cause confusi on or logistical issu es for visitors to
+New Mexico. Arizona currently does not obs erve Daylight Saving Time, which means
+that in the summer months, Arizona is functio nally in a different time zone than New
+Mexico. Staying on MDT would mean that Ariz ona is always in a different time zone.
+Since many visitors to New Me xico include other states in their trips, this could prove
+problematic. Additionally, states in the Ce ntral time zone woul d be two hours behind
+New Mexico during the months where they ar e usually on Standard Time. Given that
+much of New Mexico’s drive market come from the Central time zone, this could cause
+difficulty for some of New Mexico’s main origin markets.
+
+PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS
+
+DOIT reports the bill “introduces pot ential interoperability issues with interstate systems if
+neighboring states retain standa rd time” and that there could be impacts with other systems
+governed by federal law.
+
+NF/rl/cf