West Virginia Senate Bill 583

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 11-1)
Status: Introduced on February 24 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-24 - To Economic Development
Pending: Senate Economic Development Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to create economic incentives for data centers to locatewithin the state and further stimulate the state's economy by relying on locally sourced coal-generated electricity. The bill provides salvage value treatment for personal propertyused by qualifying data centers; an exemption from the B&O tax for all coal-generated electricity sold to qualifying data centers; and provides a sales tax exemption for all personal property sold to and used in the construction or maintenance of a qualifying data center.

Establishing economic incentives for data centers to locate within state

Sen. Brian Helton [R]	Sen. Randy Smith [R]	Sen. Scott Fuller [R]	Sen. Patrick Martin [R]
Sen. Rupert Phillips [R]	Sen. Chris Rose [R]	Sen. Patricia Rucker [R]	Sen. Jay Taylor [R]
Sen. Tom Willis [R]	Sen. Darren Thorne [R]	Sen. Rollan Roberts [R]	Sen. Mike Woelfel [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-24	Senate	To Economic Development
2025-02-24	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2025-02-24	Senate	To Economic Development then Finance
2025-02-24	Senate	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
11	13	2o	Amended Code	Citation Text
11	15	9	Amended Code	Citation Text
11	6N	1	New Code	See Bill Text
11	6N	10	New Code	See Bill Text
11	6N	2	New Code	See Bill Text
11	6N	3	New Code	See Bill Text
11	6N	4	New Code	See Bill Text
11	6N	5	New Code	See Bill Text
11	6N	6	New Code	See Bill Text
11	6N	7	New Code	See Bill Text
11	6N	8	New Code	See Bill Text
11	6N	9	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=583&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb583%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=583