Florida SB 484: Motor Vehicle Glass

Bill Text

484 
Data Centers 
2026-03-13T11:29:56Z 
Specifying that local governments maintain authority to exercise power and responsibility over comprehensive planning and land development regulations relating to large load customers; requiring public utilities to provide certain minimum tariff and service requirements for large load customers; prohibiting the governing board of a water management district or the Department of Environmental Protection from issuing a permit for the consumptive use of water to a large-scale data center under certain circumstances; requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to contract for a study relating to the construction and operation of large-scale data centers, etc. 
ENROLLED 
2026 
S 
2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
GB 
General Bill 
er 

 ENROLLED 
 2026 Legislature CS for CS for SB 484, 2nd Engrossed 

 2026484er 
 1 
 2 An act relating to data centers; creating s. 163.326, 
 3 F.S.; providing legislative findings; specifying that 
 4 local governments maintain authority to exercise power 
 5 and responsibility over comprehensive planning and 
 6 land development regulations relating to large load 
 7 customers; prohibiting a large load customer from 
 8 being considered an electric substation; amending s. 
 9 288.075, F.S.; defining the term “data center”; 
 10 providing an exception to a provision allowing an 
 11 extension of certain confidentiality protections; 
 12 creating s. 366.043, F.S.; providing legislative 
 13 findings; defining terms; requiring public utilities 
 14 to provide certain minimum tariff and service 
 15 requirements for large load customers; requiring that 
 16 such requirements ensure that large load customers 
 17 bear their costs of service and that such costs are 
 18 not shifted to the general body of ratepayers; 
 19 requiring certain measures to minimize the risk of 
 20 nonpayment of such costs; requiring that such minimum 
 21 tariff and service requirements include certain 
 22 provisions designed to prevent a public utility from 
 23 providing electric service to a large load customer 
 24 that is a foreign entity; prohibiting a customer from 
 25 separating a certain electrical load into multiple 
 26 smaller connections for a specified purpose; 
 27 authorizing the Florida Public Service Commission to 
 28 approve public utility tariffs that include certain 
 29 utility industry-accepted ratemaking and other 
 30 financial tools; prohibiting any tariff, contractual 
 31 provision, service requirement, or other public 
 32 utility policy from preventing or hindering the 
 33 curtailment or interruption of electric service to a 
 34 large load customer for certain purposes; prohibiting 
 35 a public utility from knowingly providing electric 
 36 service to a large load customer that is a foreign 
 37 entity; requiring each public utility to file a tariff 
 38 in compliance with the provisions of the bill by a 
 39 specified date; amending s. 373.203, F.S.; defining 
 40 terms; creating s. 373.262, F.S.; providing 
 41 legislative intent; prohibiting the governing board of 
 42 a water management district or the Department of 
 43 Environmental Protection from issuing a permit for the 
 44 consumptive use of water to a large-scale data center 
 45 under certain circumstances; requiring that such 
 46 permit be issued to a large-scale data center 
 47 applicant if the applicant establishes that the 
 48 proposed use of water satisfies certain requirements; 
 49 requiring the governing board or the department to 
 50 require the use of reclaimed water for a large-scale 
 51 data center applicant’s allocation when certain 
 52 requirements are met; specifying requirements for 
 53 certain permit applications; prohibiting the approval 
 54 of permit applications without a hearing; amending s. 
 55 373.239, F.S.; requiring that consumptive use permit 
 56 modifications proposed by a large-scale data center be 
 57 treated in a specified manner; requiring the Office of 
 58 Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability 
 59 to contract for a study relating to the construction 
 60 and operation of large-scale data centers; providing 
 61 requirements for the study; requiring the study to be 
 62 submitted to the Governor, the President of the 
 63 Senate, and the Speaker of the House by a specified 
 64 date; providing effective dates. 
 65 
 66 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 67 
 68 Section 1. Effective upon becoming a law, section 163.326, 
 69 Florida Statutes, is created to read: 
 70 163.326 Large load customer considerations.— 
 71 (1) The Legislature finds that certain land uses, including 
 72 facilities with substantial electric or other utility demands, 
 73 such as data centers and other large load customers as defined 
 74 in s. 366.043(2), may present unique planning, infrastructure, 
 75 and compatibility considerations. The Legislature intends that 
 76 such considerati