The U.S. House is expected to vote this week, perhaps as soon as Tuesday, on legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent nationwide, reviving a long-running effort to eliminate the twice-yearly clock changes that has drawn bipartisan support and backing from President Donald Trump.

The House vote comes after the measure cleared the House Rules Committee by a 6-4 vote and the House Energy and Commerce Committee in May on a 48-1 bipartisan vote as part of a broader transportation package.

If approved, the legislation would establish daylight saving time as the year-round national standard while allowing states to opt out by enacting legislation to remain on permanent standard time. States that currently do not observe daylight saving time, such as Hawaii and most of Arizona, would not be required to adopt it.

The legislation has 34 bipartisan House cosponsors while a companion bill has 18 bipartisan cosponsors in the Senate, most of whom are from coastal states with vibrant golf industries – a group which stands to benefit the most from permanent daylight time.

Trump has repeatedly endorsed ending the biannual clock changes, calling the practice inconvenient and unnecessarily expensive.

Congress has considered similar legislation before. In 2022, the Senate unanimously approved a bill to make daylight saving time permanent, but the House never brought it to a vote. Supporters say eliminating the time changes would reduce sleep disruption, workplace injuries and vehicle crashes while providing more evening daylight.

However, the proposal also has critics, notably religious groups such as Agudath Israel, who argue that changing to permanent daylight saving time would have a significant impact on Shachris times, which would occur well into the workday for a portion of winter months.

During a recent New Jersey Legislative hearing, Shlomo Schorr, legislative director for Agudath Israel of America’s New Jersey office, testified that permanent daylight saving time would pose significant challenges for Orthodox Jewish communities because Jewish morning prayers and certain religious rituals are tied to natural dawn and sunrise rather than the clock. During the winter months, Schorr said, morning services could not begin until about 8 or 8:30 a.m. and typically last 40 minutes to an hour, forcing many observant Jews to choose between completing their religious obligations and arriving at work on time.

Some lawmakers and sleep experts favor permanent standard time instead, arguing it better aligns with the body’s natural circadian rhythms and would prevent especially dark winter mornings for schoolchildren. An alternative proposal to make standard time permanent was not advanced for a House vote.

If the House approves the Sunshine Protection Act, the measure would still require Senate approval before it could be sent to the president for his signature.