SACRAMENTO — This will be the last year California springs forward and falls back, if Kansen Chu gets his way.

The Democratic assemblyman from San Jose, who has made it his legislative mission over the past three years to end the biannual changing of clocks in California, is pursuing a new bill to move the state to daylight-saving time all year instead of from March to November. The next switchover comes at 2 a.m. Sunday.

Voters cleared the path for Chu in November when they overwhelmingly passed an initiative giving the Legislature power to try to change the period for daylight-saving time in California, with a two-thirds vote. Congress would still have to OK the switch. The campaign had the unusual, and perhaps unprecedented, distinction of attracting exactly zero dollars from either supporters or opponents.

Chu said he is giving the people what they want. He began his quest in 2016 after hearing complaints about the time shift from voters in his district.

“The majority of the constituents would love to not have to switch back and forth. They would love to have more light in the afternoon,” he said. “There was one phone call I received — he wanted to invite me down to have a parade in Southern California” if the campaign succeeds.

The push to end daylight-saving time as we know it is spreading across the country as advocates raise concerns about health and public-safety effects associated with changing sleep patterns.

Chu said his office has identified 28 states with legislation to abolish time changes, including Oregon and Washington. No state is currently on year-round daylight-saving time, though Arizona and Hawaii observe only standard time.

Florida passed a law in 2018 to adopt permanent daylight-saving time, if Congress allows it. So far the effort has gone nowhere in Washington, though that did not stop three of the Sunshine State’s federal representatives from introducing a measure this week to make the transition at the national level.

Opponents say the minor inconvenience of changing clocks twice a year is worth the benefit of lighter mornings in the winter and keeping California in the same time zone as neighboring states.

“Daylight-saving time does not create more hours of daylight. It just changes when those daylight hours occur,” Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, and Assemblyman Phillip Chen, R-Diamond Bar (Los Angeles County), pointed out in the state voter guide last fall. “Those of you who like to wake up with the sun will wake up in the dark. You’ll be getting your family ready for the day in the dark; your kids will be walking to school or waiting for the school bus before the sun rises.”

Indeed, if Chu’s proposal goes through, the sun would rise in San Francisco on the winter solstice — Dec. 21 — at about 8:20 a.m.

Chu’s bill, AB7, is awaiting its first committee hearing. It faces daunting odds, even without any organized opposition. His original effort, to put California on year-round standard time, failed on the Senate floor three years ago when it couldn’t get a simple majority.

“But now people have spoken,” Chu said. He noted that his initiative, Proposition 7, attracted nearly 60 percent support and passed in all but seven of California’s 58 counties. “I think my colleagues will look at that and will more comfortably vote for this.”

Then there’s the question of whether it would garner the approval of Gov. Gavin Newsom and the necessary sign-off from Congress. Former Gov. Jerry Brown, who allowed the initiative onto the November ballot, once expressed his affection for daylight-saving time; Newsom did not respond to questions about his position.

Chu said he believes having four children younger than 10 will give Newsom a different perspective.

“It’s very difficult to try to put your kids to bed an hour early,” Chu said. “Most of the families with young children support it for that reason.”

Alexei Koseff is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: alexei.koseff@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @akoseff