Indiana Lawmakers Approve Daylight-Saving Time Measure

ndiana’s House gave final approval Thursday to make the entire state join to observe daylight-saving time, the Associated Press reported.

The vote capped three decades of debate, AP said.

After failing to win passage earlier in the day, proponents cheered after it passed 51-46 on a second vote, AP said. It had passed the Senate 28-22 on Wednesday and now heads to Gov. Mitch Daniels (R), who is in favor of the measure and expected to sign it.

Efforts to make the time switch have failed more than two dozen times because most of the state's 92 counties opted out of the time change under state and federal laws dating from the 1970s, AP reported.

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