2025 SESSION

INTRODUCED

25104126D

HOUSE BILL NO. 2028

Offered January 13, 2025

Prefiled January 7, 2025

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-79.10, relating to school boards; entitlement to one-time fee from certain data centers.

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Patron—Thomas

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Referred to Committee on Education

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 22.1-79.10 as follows:

§ 22.1-79.10. One-time fee from certain data centers.

Any school board that governs a school division that contains a public school located within three miles of a data center, as such term is defined in subdivision A 43 of § 58.1-3506, is entitled to a one-time fee of $250,000 to be paid by the owner of such data center no later than 90 days after the issuance of such data center's certificate of occupancy by the locality.

2. That the provisions of § 22.1-79.10 of the Code of Virginia, as created by this act, shall not apply to any data center that received a certificate of occupancy from the relevant locality on or before July 1, 2025.