Virginia Senate Bill 288 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-01-29 - Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (7-Y 8-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Data centers; noise abatement. Provides that any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center shall be approved only in accordance with certain notice and noise abatement requirements. The bill provides that residents within a half-mile radius of the parcel shall receive notice of the proposed data center and that the data center operator shall hold two neighborhood meetings. The bill requires a data center operator to design and build the data center to incorporate sound mitigation methods sufficient to prevent the sound levels emanating from the data center from exceeding the ambient noise levels that were observed in a baseline study, as determined by a third-party acoustic engineer. The bill also provides that upon issuance of a certificate of occupancy, and for five years thereafter, the data center operator shall conduct a noise study performed by a third-party acoustical engineer to document noise levels emanating from the data center measured at the property line of the nearest property to the data center property that is planned or zoned for residential land uses, or other noise sensitive use as reasonably determined by the locality, during peak operation of the data center mechanical equipment. The bill also provides that if the data center operator intends to use backup power generators on the parcel, the operator shall maintain a public website announcing the times when the generators will be in operation.

Data centers; noise abatement.

Sen. Danica Roem [D]

2024-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (7-Y 8-N) (Y: 7 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-29	Senate	Failed to report (defeated) in Local Government (7-Y 8-N)
2024-01-09	Senate	Referred to Committee on Local Government
2024-01-09	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102008D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	2209.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB288
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB288+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/24106342D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+SB288F164+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S07V0041+SB0288