Texas looking to ignore "daylight saving time" idea

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AUSTIN, TX (KTRK) -- The phrase, "spring forward, fall back" may soon fall out of our vocabulary.

Daylight Saving Time could be a thing of the past of if some Texas lawmakers have their way. There's a hearing before a house committee in Austin today on HB 150, a bill that would eliminate the twice-a-year time change.

Republican State Rep. Dan Flynn, the bill's author, says Daylight Saving Time is no longer needed and may be causing more problems than it solves. On a post on his website, he says ending the twice a year time change would be "a benefit to many including mothers who do not want to put their kids on the bus stop when it is dark and put them to bed when it is light."

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President Johnson signed Daylight Saving Time into law in Texas in 1966, asking Americans to spring forward or turn their clocks an hour ahead from spring until fall.

The move was meant to save energy at a time of rising oil prices, but many studies shown that DST has very little effect on saving energy and actually leads to an increase in car and workplace accidents and even suicides and headaches in the weeks after we spring forward.

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