| VA | SB540 | Pass | Illegal gambling; exemptions. Exempts from the provisions of Code prohibiting illegal gambling the placement or operation of or communication to and from data center equipment in the Commonwealth associated with the hosting of lottery games duly auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0358) |
| VA | HB338 | Engross
Sine Die | Siting of data centers; site assessment. Allows a locality, prior to any approval for the siting of a data center, to perform a site assessment to examine the effect of the data center on water usage and carbon emissions within the locality. Siting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB338 | Engross
Prefile | Siting of data centers; site assessment. Allows a locality, prior to any approval for the siting of a data center, to perform a site assessment to examine the effect of the data center on water usage and carbon emissions within the locality. Siting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB337 | Intro
Sine Die | Siting of data centers; impacts on resources and historically significant sites. Provides that any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center shall only be approved in areas where the data center will (i) have a mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | HB1010 | Intro
Sine Die | Siting of data centers; parks, schools, and residential areas. Requires that any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center, as defined in the bill, be approved only for areas that are one-quarter mile or more from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee |
| VA | SB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; electric distribution infrastructure serving data centers. Prohibits the costs associated with the construction or extension of any electric distribution infrastructure that primarily serves the load of a data center from being re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB664 | Intro
Prefile | Electric utilities; electric distribution infrastructure serving data centers. Prohibits the costs associated with the construction or extension of any electric distribution infrastructure that primarily serves the load of a data center from being re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| VA | SB284 | Intro
Sine Die | Siting of data centers; impacts on resources and historically significant sites. Provides that any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center shall only be approved in areas where the data center will (i) have a mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | SB285 | Intro
Sine Die | Siting of data centers; site assessment. Requires a locality, prior to any approval for the siting of a data center, to require disclosure of water and power usage at full build-out and perform a site assessment to examine the effect of the data cent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB1546 | Intro
Sine Die | Sales and use tax; exemption for data centers. Sales and use tax; exemption for data centers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | SB285 | Intro
Prefile | Siting of data centers; site assessment. Requires a locality, prior to any approval for the siting of a data center, to require disclosure of water and power usage at full build-out and perform a site assessment to examine the effect of the data cent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | SB284 | Intro
Prefile | Siting of data centers; impacts on resources and historically significant sites. Provides that any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center shall only be approved in areas where the data center will (i) have a mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate General Laws and Technology Committee |
| VA | HB1546 | Intro
Prefile | Sales and use tax; exemption for data centers. Sales and use tax; exemption for data centers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| VA | HB910 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Energy; data center energy usage. Requires each data center located in the Commonwealth to make a quarterly energy source report to the Department of Energy's Division of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency that identifies the amount...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR64 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Department of Housing and Community Development; revenue sharing program for localities hosting data center infrastructure; report. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to study creating a revenue sharing program for loc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR64 | Intro
Prefile | Study; Department of Housing and Community Development; revenue sharing program for localities hosting data center infrastructure; report. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to study creating a revenue sharing program for loc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HB910 | Intro
Prefile | Department of Energy; data center energy usage. Requires each data center located in the Commonwealth to make a quarterly energy source report to the Department of Energy's Division of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency that identifies the amount...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | SB288 | Intro
Sine Die | Data centers; noise abatement. Provides that any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center shall be approved only in accordance with certain notice and noise abatement requirements. The bill provides that resident...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (7-Y 8-N) |
