Re:Mexico got rid of daylight saving time. Should the U.S. e...
by ooterness on Sunday March 10, 2024 @03:58AM
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I am sure those words mean something to lawyers. To me, it's still just ignoring an overwhelming voter mandate, but with a lot of extra complicated steps.
Re:Mexico got rid of daylight saving time. Should the U.S. e...
by dragonwriter on Sunday March 10, 2024 @05:55AM
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The only voter mandate was to align California DST transition in law with federal law (because of the Supremacy Clause, this was already reflected in practice, as federal law superceded state law anyway); the ballot measure allowed the legislature to make further changes as long as federal law allowed, but did not direct any such changes, and it was very clear when we voted on it that we weren’t voting for any specific changes.
So, no, there was no voter mandate that was ignored. The legislature asked for some cleanup and discretionary authority, and the voters said yes. That's it.
No, it didn’t.
It had a legislatively-referred statute proposition (neither an initiative, which is a law proposed by the voters, nor a referendum, which is a voter-initiated exercise moving a bill already passed by the legislature to a vote of the people) to both align California law with federal law on Daylight Savings Time (since a prior voter initiative technically locked California into both having a DST switch and having a particular DST period which was no longer the standard federally-allowed period, and the legislature cannot change laws passed by voter initiative without securing the approval of voters) and allow (but not require) the legislature to make further changes to the DST period as long as they were within federal law, including either permanent standard time or permanent DST (but the latter only if federal law was changed to allow it.)
See, https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_7,_Legislativ...