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IL-SB4203 — DCEO-DATA CENTERS

Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. In provisions concerning data center incentives, provides that, as a condition of receiving and maintaining a data center certificate of exemption, the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall require that the qualified data center operator execute and comply with a community benefit agreement with the host community in which the qualified data center is located. Provides that the community ben…

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Legal stateIntroduced / in committeeA bill is not law unless the source record shows enactment.
JurisdictionIllinoisState-source record
Latest recorded action2026-06-17Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Erica Harriss
Primary sourceStateOriginal public record linked

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How it operates

Community participation · Tax incentive / clawback

Gives affected residents a formal voice — hearings, comment periods, or benefit agreements — before or as a project proceeds. Lowers the public cost of building a data center, and can attach conditions or clawbacks that recover the benefit if commitments are not met.

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Tax Incentives

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Formal policy pathway

Susan Rezin

sponsored: Susan Rezin

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Selected by shared tracked mechanisms or themes, with cross jurisdiction examples prioritized. Similarity is not legal equivalence.

IF13306United States · Research or guidanceCongressional Authority to Regulate Data CentersCommunity participation · Tax incentive / clawbackWA-HB2655Washington · Introduced / in committeeProviding a retail sales and use tax exemption for the construction and equipping of new data centers located in a county east of the Cascades that borders another state and has a population of at least 500,000.Community participation · Tax incentive / clawback · Tax IncentivesNJ-A5482New Jersey · Introduced / in committeeEstablishes six month moratorium on approvals, construction, expansion, subsidies, and tax incentives for certain artificial intelligence data centers; creates Artificial Intelligence Data Center Impact Commission.Tax incentive / clawbackMA-DATA-CENTER-GUARDRAILS-2026Massachusetts · Official announcementMassachusetts pauses data-center tax incentive and calls for comprehensive guardrailsTax incentive / clawback · Tax Incentives
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DCEO-DATA CENTERS

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Policy record 1Policy theme 2Policy mechanism 2Documented actor 1Policy family 1Jurisdiction 1Original source 1
explicitly concerns: Theme named in the title or stored summaryclassified under: Fixed-vocabulary topic classificationsignals mechanism: Mechanism signal derived from the tracked record textsignals mechanism: Mechanism signal derived from the tracked record textapplies in: Jurisdiction recorded for this source typedocumented by: Original source URL stored with the policy recordsponsored: Named sponsor in the tracked public recordmember of family: exact title companionPolicy recordIL-SB4203DCEO-DATA CENTERSIL-SB4203: DCEO-DATA CENTERSPolicy themeTax IncentivesExplicit record textTax Incentives: Explicit record textPolicy themeRatepayerAI-assisted policy themeRatepayer: AI-assisted policy themePolicy mechanismCommunity participationText-derived policy signalCommunity participation: Text-derived policy signalPolicy mechanismTax incentive / clawba…Text-derived policy signalTax incentive / clawback: Text-derived policy signalJurisdictionIllinoisState policy jurisdictionIllinois: State policy jurisdictionOriginal sourceStateOriginal public sourceState: Original public sourceDocumented actorSusan RezinpersonSusan Rezin: personPolicy familyDCEO-DATA CENTERSILDCEO-DATA CENTERS: IL

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