Today I signed:
✅ HB 437 - the wine shipment bill
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The bill received nearly complete support among state legislators. It passed through the Alabama Senate in a unanimous 29-0 vote before passing in the Alabama House last week 93-1.
“You go from March to November, one sort of time and switching to another time, it’s hard for folks to get used to the change,” State Rep. Ritchie Whorton (R), one of the bill’s sponsors, said last week. “A lot of people not used to getting up to the morning, running late and having an accident.”
The practice of changing clocks to take advantage of sunlight began nearly a century ago as an energy-saving measure in Germany during World War I. The United States began adopting the practice shortly after but there was no national standard until Congress passed the Uniform Time Act of 1966.