Virginia Senate Bill 192 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-01-30 - Continued to 2025 in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 1-N)
Pending: Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Sales and use tax exemption; data centers. Requires data center operators to meet certain energy efficiency standards in order to be eligible for the sales and use tax exemption for data center purchases. Under the bill, a data center operator shall be eligible for the exemption only if such operator demonstrates that (i) its facilities either (a) have a power usage effectiveness score of no greater than 1.2 or (b) for data centers co-located in buildings with other commercial uses, achieve an energy efficiency level of no less than the most efficient 15 percent of similar buildings constructed in the previous five years and (ii) it will procure carbon-free renewable energy and associated renewable energy certificates from facilities equal to 90 percent of its electricity requirements or that its electricity will be otherwise derived from non-carbon-emitting, renewable sources. Sales and use tax exemption; data centers. Requires data center operators to meet certain energy efficiency standards in order to be eligible for the sales and use tax exemption for data center purchases. Under the bill, a data center operator shall be eligible for the exemption only if such operator demonstrates that (i) its facilities either (a) have a power usage effectiveness score of no greater than 1.2 or (b) for data centers co-located in buildings with other commercial uses, achieve an energy efficiency level of no less than the most efficient 15 percent of similar buildings constructed in the previous five years and (ii) it will procure carbon-free renewable energy and associated renewable energy certificates from facilities equal to 90 percent of its electricity requirements or that its electricity will be otherwise derived from non-carbon-emitting, renewable sources.

Sales and use tax exemption; data centers.

Sen. Suhas Subramanyam [D]

Sen. Barbara Favola [D]

2024-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2025 in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 1-N) (Y: 14 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-30	Senate	Continued to 2025 in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 1-N)
2024-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
2024-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102742D

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

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB192
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB192+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+SB192F161+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S05V0049+SB0192