New House Budget Strips Environmental Standards for Data Centers in Va., Creates Commission Instead

New House budget strips environmental standards for data centers in Va., creates commission instead

Speaker of the House of Delegates Don Scott, flanked by Appropriations Chair Del. Luke Torian, D-Prince William, and other bipartisan house members, unveiled the chamber’s latest budget proposal in Richmond on Friday, which they framed as a “compromise package” that they urged the state Senate to accept. The updated spending plan no longer includes environmental standards data centers would need to meet in order to be exempted from the state’s s…

House budget conferees unveil their latest spending proposal, legal cannabis and a data center accountability commission included

House of Delegates conferees presented an updated biennial budget proposal on Friday that includes the legalization of retail cannabis and the creation of a commission to study the impact of data centers.  The House proposal does not include an end to the data center tax exemptions in 2027, eight years earlier than the current expiration, which has been a sticking point between the House and state Senate in the budget negotiations.  “The questio…

New House budget strips environmental standards for data centers, creates commission instead

Speaker of the House of Delegates Don Scott, flanked by Appropriations Chair Del. Luke Torian, D-Prince William, and other bipartisan house members, unveiled the chamber’s latest budget proposal in Richmond on Friday, which they framed as a “compromise package” that…

With June 30 deadline looming, Virginia House conferees unveil new budget proposal as data center dispute continues to stall final agreement

Picture courtesy of Virginia House Democrats. With less than three weeks remaining before the start of Virginia’s new fiscal year, conferees of the House of Delegate, who have been at loggerheads with the Senate controlled by the same political party, unveiled a revised state budget proposal that seeks to break the months-long stalemate over data center tax policy while preserving ...

House Democrats release budget proposal

by Brandon Jarvis House Democrats dropped a budget proposal Friday morning and seemed hopeful that Senate Democrats would be amenable. The biggest sticking point throughout this entire debate has been data center tax breaks. Senate Democrats want to end the tax breaks, while House Democrats want to stick to their past promises to keep them in place through 2035. Speaker of the House Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, pointed out that he was not in the Gen…