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Places a one year moratorium on the issuance of data center permits; requires utilities to establish an independent classification of service for large data centers; sets energy efficiency goals for data centers; provides for benefits for host communities; sets labor standards for the construction of data centers.

Jun 4, 2026: RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

Places a one year moratorium on the issuance of data center permits; requires utilities to establish an independent classification of service for large data centers; sets energy efficiency goals for data centers; provides for benefits for host communities; sets labor standards for the construction of data centers.

Jun 4, 2026: SUBSTITUTED BY A11560

Regulates energy consumption by data centers; requires annual disclosure reporting; prohibits incentives in fossil fuel power purchase agreements with utilities.

Jun 1, 2026: print number 9086b

Regulates energy consumption by data centers; requires annual disclosure reporting; prohibits incentives in fossil fuel power purchase agreements with utilities.

May 30, 2026: PRINT NUMBER 6394B

An act relating to sustainable data center deployment

May 29, 2026: Veto of the Governor sustained by a vote of Yeas = 83, Nays = 52

Requires hyperscale data centers to offset their electricity demand by funding household electrification measures.

May 18, 2026: delivered to senate

Requesting The Hawaii State Energy Office To Convene A Working Group To Study The Potential Impacts Of Large Data Centers On Hawaii's Electric Utilities, Ratepayers, Natural Resources, And Climate Goals.

May 12, 2026: Certified copies of resolutions sent, 05-12-26.

Prohibits allocation of economic development power to data centers; provides for certain caps on amounts and eligibility for industrial development agency financial assistance; provides for the return of industrial development agency-awarded financial assistance if certain job levels are not maintained within 5 years of project completion; designates the department of environmental conservation as the mandatory lead agency for environmental quality review of any action consuming over 20 megawatts; requires environmental quality review for any action within 10 miles of a federally recognized Indian nation's territory.

May 22, 2026: PRINT NUMBER 9182B

Data centers; Department of Energy shall lead efforts to accelerate use of waste heat, report.

Apr 13, 2026: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0591)

Electrical service; require new data centers to operate as hybrid power data centers

Feb 19, 2026: House Second Readers

Create the Data Center Study Commission

Jun 10, 2026: Recommitted: Energy

HYPERSCALE DATA CENTERS

May 30, 2026: Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Karina Villa

HYPERSCALE DATA CENTERS

May 27, 2026: Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Debbie Meyers-Martin

Sustainable aviation fuel income tax credit and exemptions for data centers and construction of sustainable aviation fuel facilities repealed, increased general fund amounts reallocated from repealed tax provisions to increase the renter's credit, and corresponding technical changes made.

May 8, 2025: Authors added Virnig and Jones

"Responsible Data Center Development and Resource Protection Act"; establishes Statewide framework concerning siting, land use approval, energy sourcing, water use, and environmental impacts of large load data center development.

Jun 18, 2026: Introduced, Referred to Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology Committee

"Responsible Data Center Development and Resource Protection Act"; establishes Statewide framework concerning siting, land use approval, energy sourcing, water use, and environmental impacts of large load data center development.

Jun 4, 2026: Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee

Data Center Water and Energy Transparency Act of 2026

Rep. Underwood, Lauren [D-IL-14] · 1 cosponsors

Jul 22, 2026: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Providing for the regulation of commercial data centers; imposing duties on the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, the Department of Human Services and the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority; establishing the Data Center Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program Enhancement Account and the Pennsylvania Energy Independence Account; providing for clean firm energy requirements, contract filing, commission review, disclosure requirements, backup generation standards, curtailment standards and certification and expedited interconnection for commercial data centers bringing incremental clean firm energy resources; and imposing penalties.

May 20, 2026: Referred to Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure

Data Center Water and Energy Transparency Act of 2026

Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]

Mar 25, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text: CR S1616-1617)

Requires energy usage plan for proposed artificial intelligence data centers and cryptocurrency mining facilities; requires all electricity for artificial intelligence data centers and cryptocurrency mining facilities to be derived from new clean energy sources.

Mar 16, 2026: Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee

Requires submission of energy usage plan to BPU for proposed artificial intelligence data centers; requires all electricity for artificial intelligence data centers to be derived from new clean energy sources.

Jan 13, 2026: Introduced, Referred to Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee

Data Center Resource Disclosure Act

Rep. Scholten, Hillary J. [D-MI-3] · 2 cosponsors

Jul 30, 2026: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Protecting Communities from Data Center Impacts Act of 2026

Rep. Landsman, Greg [D-OH-1]

Jul 9, 2026: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Requires hyperscale data centers to offset their electricity demand by funding household electrification measures.

May 20, 2026: REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Criteria for preapplication evaluations of water appropriations for certain data centers modified, data centers' electricity sales exempted in calculating a utility's solar energy standard, other data center exemptions provided, and data center energy generation redundancy provided.

Apr 16, 2026: Introduction and first reading, referred to Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy

Requesting The Hawaii State Energy Office To Convene A Working Group To Study The Potential Impacts Of Large Data Centers On Hawaii's Electric Utilities, Ratepayers, Natural Resources, And Climate Goals.

Apr 10, 2026: Referred to EEP, FIN, referral sheet 28

Providing for the regulation of commercial data centers; imposing duties on the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, the Department of Human Services and the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority; establishing the Data Center Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program Enhancement Account and the Pennsylvania Energy Independence Account; providing for clean firm energy requirements, contract filing, commission review, disclosure requirements, backup generation standards, curtailment standards and certification and expedited interconnection for commercial data centers bringing incremental clean firm energy resources; and imposing penalties.

Mar 31, 2026: Referred to Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure

Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act

Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]

Mar 25, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

No Harm Data Centers Act

Rep. Landsman, Greg [D-OH-1] · 1 cosponsors

Mar 20, 2026: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Data Center Transparency Act

Rep. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ-8] · 10 cosponsors

Jan 8, 2026: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Smart Data Center Policy Act

Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-VA-7]

Aug 3, 2026: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Data centers provisions modifications

Apr 13, 2026: Referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate

Requesting The Hawaii State Energy Office To Convene A Working Group To Study The Potential Impacts Of Large Data Centers On Hawaii's Electric Utilities, Ratepayers, Natural Resources, And Climate Goals.

Apr 27, 2026: Resolution adopted in final form.

Requesting The Hawaii State Energy Office To Convene A Working Group To Study The Potential Impacts Of Large Data Centers On Hawaii's Electric Utilities, Ratepayers, Natural Resources, And Climate Goals.

Apr 9, 2026: Resolution adopted in final form.

Data centers: reporting.

Aug 17, 2026: Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

California Environmental Quality Act: environmental leadership development projects: data centers: clean energy powerplant projects.

Aug 13, 2026: Read second time. Ordered to third reading.