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With most of the nation set to âspring forwardâ to Daylight Savings Time this weekend, a New Mexico State Senator is hopeful his effort to stop the twice-annual changing of the clocks becomes law this year.
Tom Trowbridge reports from the Roundhouse:
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Ever since his first term in the New Mexico State Senate in 2013, Roswell Senator Cliff Pirtle has become known as âFather Time.â
Thatâs because the Republican hasâduring each odd-numbered-yearsâ 60-day legislative sessionsâsponsored bills to exempt New Mexico from changing the time of day from Standard to Daylight Savings Time.
Pirtle, who in 2012 defeated an incumbent Senator whoâd been a member of New Mexicoâs âupper chamberâ for more than years than heâd been alive, is at it again:
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With that momentum established, Pirtle is hopeful about getting the bill to Governor Michelle Lujan Grishamâs desk this year:
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Pirtleâs bill cleared the State Senate last week⊠and is now before the HouseâŠregardless, the bill will take someâyesâTIMEâto be approved by the federal government.
For the New Mexico News Network, Iâm Tom Trowbridge