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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 899: High electric demand facility; locality may include in its zoning ordinance water use estimate.

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 899 is a bill introduced in the Virginia Senate on January 5, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: High electric demand facility; locality may include in its zoning ordinance water use estimate. Primary sponsor: Richard Stuart (Republican). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (January 30, 2025): Read third time and defeated by Senate (13-Y 26-N 1-A).

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Zoning; data centers; water use. Authorizes a locality to include in its zoning ordinance provisions for (i) requiring proposed data center developments to submit water use estimates and (ii) considering water use when making rezoning and special use permit decisions related to data center development.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1 · Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Richard StuartPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate25
Danica RoemCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate30

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Read third time and defeated by Senate (13-Y 26-N 1-A)
  2. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
  3. Local Government Substitute agreed to
  4. Reading of substitute waived
  5. Read second time
  6. Passed by for the day
  7. Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N)
  8. Rules suspended
  9. Committee substitute printed 25106228D-S1
  10. Reported from Local Government with substitute (7-Y 6-N 2-A)
  11. Referred to Committee on Local Government
  12. Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102484D

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source