Bill Text: MI HB6142 | 2025-2026 | 103rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Businesses: other; requirements for data center decommissioning, dismantling, and remediation; provide for. Amends 1939 PA 3 (MCL 460.1 - 460.11) by adding sec. 10jj. TIE BAR WITH: HB 6135'26, HB 6140'26, HB 6141'26, HB 6137'26, HB 6138'26, HB 6139'26
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 28)
Status: (Introduced) 2026-06-30 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/25/2026 [HB6142 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2025-HB6142-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 6142
A bill to amend 1939 PA 3, entitled
"An act to provide for the regulation and control of public and certain private utilities and other services affected with a public interest within this state; to provide for alternative energy suppliers and certain providers of electric vehicle charging services; to provide for licensing; to include municipally owned utilities and other providers of energy under certain provisions of this act; to create a public service commission and to prescribe and define its powers and duties; to abolish the Michigan public utilities commission and to confer the powers and duties vested by law on the public service commission; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state governmental officers and entities; to provide for the continuance, transfer, and completion of certain matters and proceedings; to abolish automatic adjustment clauses; to prohibit certain rate increases without notice and hearing; to qualify residential energy conservation programs permitted under state law for certain federal exemption; to create a fund; to encourage the utilization of resource recovery facilities; to prohibit certain acts and practices of providers of energy; to allow for the securitization of stranded costs; to reduce rates; to provide for appeals; to provide appropriations; to declare the effect and purpose of this act; to prescribe remedies and penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,"
(MCL 460.1 to 460.11) by adding section 10jj.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 10jj. (1) The commission shall not approve a tariff, rate, or contract between a data center and an electric utility unless the tariff, rate, or contract requires a decommissioning plan that ensures the decommissioning, dismantling, and remediating of the data center property to a condition similar to that which existed before construction of the data center. The decommissioning plan must include, but is not limited to, financial assurance in the form of a performance bond, letter of credit, or escrow account. The amount of the financial assurance must not be less than the estimated cost of decommissioning the data center, as calculated by the commission or a qualified independent third-party approved by the commission. The commission shall review the financial assurance every 3 years to ensure that there is sufficient money available to decommission, dismantle, and remediate the data center property.
(2) As used in this section, "data center" means a facility in this state that is composed of 1 or more buildings and that is designed and intended for housing, and does house, data center equipment to centralize the storage and processing of data.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 103rd Legislature are enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No. ____ (request no. S06933'26) or House Bill No. 6135 (request no. H06933'26).
(b) Senate Bill No. ____ (request no. S06934'26) or House Bill No. 6139 (request no. H06934'26).
(c) Senate Bill No. ____ (request no. S06939'26) or House Bill No. 6137 (request no. H06939'26).
(d) Senate Bill No. ____ (request no. S06942'26) or House Bill No. 6140 (request no. H06942'26).
(e) Senate Bill No. ____ (request no. S06965'26) or House Bill No. 6138 (request no. H06965'26).
(f) Senate Bill No. ____ (request no. S07181'26) or House Bill No. 6141 (request no. H07181'26).
