NebraskaData center owners would cover shutdown costs and make community agreements
Data center owners or operators would have to pay all shutdown costs and make agreements with communities affected by their facilities.
What it does
Data center owners or operators would pay all shutdown and removal costs and make community benefit agreements with communities affected by their facilities.
Argument forRequiring owners to cover shutdown costs could reduce the chance that affected communities must handle abandoned data center facilities.
Argument againstRequired community agreements could delay projects or create uncertain duties because the amendment does not define what those agreements must contain.
More detail
Data center owners or operators would have to pay all costs of closing and removing their facilities and enter community benefit agreements. The duties would apply to owners or operators of data centers and communities affected by those facilities. The amendment states no exception or funding condition. It does not explain what each community benefit agreement must contain. The supplied amendment gives no effective date or deadline.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed 1st Chamber
- Passed 2nd Chamber
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Apr 17Presented to Governor on April 10, 2026To Governor
- Apr 17Approved by Governor Jim Pillen on April 14, 2026Became Law
- Apr 17Provisions/portions of LB1064 amended into LB1010 by AM2422
- Apr 17Provisions/portions of LB1111 amended into LB1010 by AM2422
- Apr 17Provisions/portions of LB1193 amended into LB1010 by AM2387
- Apr 10Dispensing of reading at large approved
- Vote recorded Passed on Final Reading 49-0-0. Result: pass.Legislature
- Apr 10Passed on Final Reading 49-0-0Passed 2nd Chamber
- Apr 10President/Speaker signedPassed 1st Chamber
- Apr 7Placed on Final ReadingMinor
- Mar 31Enrollment and Review ER147 adopted
- Vote recorded Cavanaugh, M. AM2910 adopted. Result: pass.Legislature
- Mar 31Kauth FA666 withdrawn
- Mar 31Cavanaugh, M. AM2910 adopted
- Mar 31Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment
- Mar 26Cavanaugh, M. AM2910 filedMinor
- Mar 18Placed on Select File with ER147Minor
- Mar 18Enrollment and Review ER147 filedMinor
- Mar 12Brandt AM2387 adopted
- Vote recorded Brandt AM2387 adopted. Result: pass.Legislature
- Vote recorded Natural Resources AM2422 adopted. Result: pass.Legislature
- Vote recorded Prokop AM2517 lost. Result: fail.Legislature
- Vote recorded Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial. Result: pass.Legislature
- Mar 12Prokop AM2517 to AM2422 filedMinor
- Mar 12Prokop AM2517 lost
- Mar 12Natural Resources AM2422 adopted
- Mar 12Brandt FA1016 withdrawn
- Mar 12Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial
- Mar 9Brandt AM2387 to AM2422 filedMinor
- Mar 6Placed on General File with AM2422Minor
- Mar 6Natural Resources AM2422 filedMinor
- Feb 20Brandt FA1016 filedMinor
- Feb 19Natural Resources priority bill
- Feb 4Notice of hearing for February 11, 2026
- Jan 21Rereferred to Natural Resources Committee
- Jan 15Referred to Judiciary CommitteeMinor
- Jan 14Kauth FA666 filedMinor
- Jan 13Date of introductionIntroduced
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