(NEXSTAR) — As the calendar turns to November, so, too, will our clocks turn back to standard time as daylight saving (not savings) time comes to an end. Several states were hoping to avoid the second seasonal time change this year, but only two miss out on gaining an hour of sleep on Sunday.

In all but four states, lawmakers brought forth bills aimed at "locking the clocks." (Technically, the tally is 14; more on that in a moment.)

There remain bills in Congress that could put the U.S. on permanent daylight saving time or give states more power to observe it themselves. One even earned an aptly-named hearing that Cher may have appreciated, only for a recent effort to fast-track it to be thwarted.

The same can be said for several of the seasonal time change-related bills introduced on t

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