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VA-HB503 — Electric utilities; cost recovery, costs substantially related to serving data center customers.

Electric utilities; cost recovery; costs substantially related to serving data center customers. Prohibits the recovery of costs incurred by an electric utility that (i) are substantially related to the provision of electric service to data center customers and (ii) would not have been incurred but for the demand of such data center customers from being included in any rates or charges approved by the State Corporation Commission under current law, unless such rates and charges are designed to recover, or substant…

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Legal stateOther / status unclearA bill is not law unless the source record shows enactment.
JurisdictionVirginiaState-source record
Latest recorded action2026-02-12Continued to 2027 in Labor and Commerce (Voice Vote)
Primary sourceStateOriginal public record linked

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Moratorium

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Issues named in the record

Energy

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Electric utilities; cost recovery, costs substantially related to serving data center customers.

9 nodes · 8 evidenced edges
Policy record 1Policy theme 3Policy mechanism 1Documented actor 1Policy family 1Jurisdiction 1Original source 1
explicitly concerns: Theme named in the title or stored summaryclassified under: Fixed-vocabulary topic classificationclassified under: Fixed-vocabulary topic classificationsignals 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 recordVA-HB503Electric utilities; cost re…VA-HB503: Electric utilities; cost recovery, costs substantially related to serving data center customers.Policy themeEnergyExplicit record textEnergy: Explicit record textPolicy themeGrid ReliabilityAI-assisted policy themeGrid Reliability: AI-assisted policy themePolicy themeRatepayerAI-assisted policy themeRatepayer: AI-assisted policy themePolicy mechanismMoratoriumText-derived policy signalMoratorium: Text-derived policy signalJurisdictionVirginiaState policy jurisdictionVirginia: State policy jurisdictionOriginal sourceStateOriginal public sourceState: Original public sourceDocumented actorJohn Chilton McAuliffpersonJohn Chilton McAuliff: personPolicy familyElectric utilities; co…VAElectric utilities; cost recovery, costs substantially related to serving data center customers.: VA

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