Virginia Senate Bill 1522 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: Passed on March 26 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-03-26 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0671)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Data centers and cloud computing; sales tax exemption; grant fund. Creates the Cloud Computing Cluster Infrastructure Grant Fund for the purpose of providing grants to qualified companies, defined in the bill as a company, including its affiliates, that enters into a memorandum of understanding with the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority and is expected to (i) make or cause to be made a capital investment of at least $50 billion and (ii) create at least 1,500 new full-time jobs that pay an average annual wage of at least one and one-half times the prevailing average wage in the locality where the job is located. The bill requires that, in order to become a qualified company, a company successfully complete a qualification process that includes an endorsement from the MEI Commission and approval in the appropriation act for the amount of grants that are to be provided. Data centers and cloud computing; sales tax exemption; grant fund. Creates the Cloud Computing Cluster Infrastructure Grant Fund for the purpose of providing grants to qualified companies, defined in the bill as a company, including its affiliates, that enters into a memorandum of understanding with the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority and is expected to (i) make or cause to be made a capital investment of at least $50 billion and (ii) create at least 1,500 new full-time jobs that pay an average annual wage of at least one and one-half times the prevailing average wage in the locality where the job is located. The bill requires that, in order to become a qualified company, a company successfully complete a qualification process that includes an endorsement from the MEI Commission and approval in the appropriation act for the amount of grants that are to be provided. The bill also extends the data center sales and use tax exemption to 2040 for a data center operator that (a) makes a capital investment of at least $35 billion in data centers in the Commonwealth and (b) creates at least 1,000 direct new jobs, of which at least 100 of such jobs pay at least one and one-half times the prevailing average wage in the Commonwealth. Such data center operator shall be eligible for further extension of the sales and use tax exemption to 2050 if the data center operator (1) makes a total capital investment of at least $100 billion, inclusive of the initial $35 billion investment, and (2) creates a total of at least 2,500 direct new jobs, of which at least 100 of such jobs pay at least one and one-half times the prevailing average wage in the Commonwealth, inclusive of the 1,000 jobs initially created.

Cloud Computing Cluster Infrastructure Grant Fund; created.

Sen. George Barker [D]

Sen. Janet Howell [D]

Sen. Frank Ruff [R]

2023-02-25 - House - House: VOTE: Adoption (78-Y 14-N 1-A) (Y: 78 N: 14 NV: 1 Abs: 7) [PASS]
2023-02-22 - Senate - Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (36-Y 4-N) (Y: 36 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-15 - Senate - Senate: Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-15 - Senate - Senate: House substitute with amendment rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N) (Y: 0 N: 40 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2023-02-15 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (85-Y 10-N 1-A) (Y: 85 N: 10 NV: 1 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2023-02-13 - House - House: Reported from Appropriations with substitute (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) (Y: 38 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 1-N) (Y: 14 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-03-26		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0671)
2023-03-26		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 671 (effective 7/1/23)
2023-03-13		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
2023-03-13	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023
2023-03-08	House	Signed by Speaker
2023-03-08	Senate	Signed by President
2023-03-07	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1522ER)
2023-03-07	Senate	Enrolled
2023-02-25	House	VOTE: Adoption (78-Y 14-N 1-A)
2023-02-25	House	Conference report agreed to by House (78-Y 14-N 1-A)
2023-02-22	Senate	Conference report agreed to by Senate (36-Y 4-N)
2023-02-20		Conference: Amended by conference committee
2023-02-15	House	Delegates: Knight, Austin, Torian
2023-02-15	House	Conferees appointed by House
2023-02-15	Senate	Senators: Barker, McPike, Pillion
2023-02-15	Senate	Conferees appointed by Senate
2023-02-15	Senate	Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
2023-02-15	House	House requested conference committee
2023-02-15	House	House insisted on substitute with amendment
2023-02-15	Senate	House substitute with amendment rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N)
2023-02-15	House	VOTE: Passage (85-Y 10-N 1-A)
2023-02-15	House	Passed House with substitute with amendment (85-Y 10-N 1-A)
2023-02-15	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendment SB1522H1
2023-02-15	House	Amendment by Delegate Knight agreed to
2023-02-15	House	Committee substitute agreed to 23106561D-H1
2023-02-15	House	Read third time
2023-02-14	House	Read second time
2023-02-13	House	Committee substitute printed 23106561D-H1
2023-02-13	House	Reported from Appropriations with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
2023-02-10	House	Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources
2023-02-08	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2023-02-08	House	Read first time
2023-02-08	House	Placed on Calendar
2023-02-06	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 1-N)
2023-02-03	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2023-02-02	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2023-02-01	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 1-N)
2023-01-20	Senate	Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
2023-01-20	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 23102446D

HB2479 (Same As) 2023-03-27 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0678)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
58	1	609.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
59	1	284.41	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1522
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1522+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1522H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1522ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0671+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/23106893A.pdf
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+amd+SB1522AH
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+amd+SB1522AHE
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+amd+SB1522AC
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1522F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1522FH1122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1522FER122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S05V0197+SB1522
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0212SB1522+SB1522
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0274SB1522+SB1522
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H02V0184+SB1522
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+HV1828+SB1522
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0495SB1522+SB1522
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0520SB1522+SB1522
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0731SB1522+SB1522
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+HV2392+SB1522