Bill Text: VA SB284 | 2024 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Siting of data centers; impacts on resources and historically significant sites.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-07 - Continued to 2025 in General Laws and Technology (13-Y 2-N) [SB284 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2024-SB284-Prefiled.html
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SENATE BILL NO. 284
Offered January 10, 2024
Prefiled January 9, 2024
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 1 of
Chapter 22 of Title 15.2 a section numbered 15.2-2209.4, relating to siting of
data centers; impacts on resources and historically significant sites.
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Patron-- Roem
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Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 22 of Title 15.2 a section numbered 15.2-2209.4 as follows:
§15.2-2209.4. Siting of data centers; impacts on resources.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, general or special, any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center, as defined in §58.1-3506, shall only be approved in areas where the data center will (i) have a minimal impact on historic, agricultural, and cultural resources and (ii) not be within one mile of a national park, state park, or other historically significant site, as designated by the Department of Historic Resources.
