Senate Bill 34 (2025-2026) -- Full Ratepayer Cost-Shift Protection from Large-Load/Data-Center Infrastructure Costs -- STALLED, ITS LANGUAGE WATERED DOWN AND FOLDED INTO S.B. 410

two-reviewer statute withdrawn ga-sb34-2025-2026-large-load-ratepayer-cost-shift-bill-folded-into-sb410

This record is listed in full and read in part. Its identity, citation, docket, status and review state are open, and so are all 3 of its source documents with their pinpoints, so you can go read the primary text yourself. The first 3 extracted quotes are open too. The recorded term fields, and the remaining quotes, are in the $99 Georgia pass and the $199 all-states pass. Pricing.

Record created 2026-08-20, last updated 2026-08-20. Snapshot built September 14, 2026. JSON

Fields, as recorded

State: GA
Kind: statute
Status: withdrawn
Agency: Georgia General Assembly
Citation: Georgia S.B. 34 (2025-2026 Regular Session, Sen. Chuck Hufstetler, R-Rome), "Public Service Commission; costs incurred by an electric utility as a result of providing electric services to commercial data centers from being included in any rates; prohibit"; no floor vote was ever recorded; last action Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute, Feb. 25, 2026
Mandatory: $99 Georgia pass
Summary: $99 Georgia pass
Cost allocation: $99 Georgia pass
Locked fields: $99 Georgia pass 3 recorded fields on this record are in the state and all-states passes.

Sources

3 rows, every one with a quote and a pinpoint. 3 quotes open here

Georgia General Assembly, legislation record for S.B. 34 (2025-2026 Regular Session), id 69551 government two-reviewer
"status": "Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute"
JSON response fields: title, status, statusHistory, votes, versions
https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/detail/69551
Georgia General Assembly official record. The /api/legislation/detail endpoint requires a bearer token; obtain it with GET https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/authentication/token?key=SHA512('QFpCwKfd7f'+'jVEXFFwSu36BwwcP83xYgxLAhLYmKk'+'letvarconst'+ms)&ms=<epoch-millis> (constants read out of the site's own Angular bundle main.<hash>.js by the GA gate verifier, 2026-08-20), then send 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'. Quote is verbatim JSON from the response. Human-readable equivalent page: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/69551 "votes": null -- no floor vote was ever recorded on S.B. 34, the primary-record confirmation that its substance died without its own vote. statusHistory: Senate Hopper 2025-01-27; Senate Read and Referred 2025-01-28; Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute 2025-02-26; Senate Read Second Time 2025-02-27; Senate Recommitted 2026-01-12; Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute 2026-02-25. This independently corroborates the Feb-2025 stall episode the collector had to drop when both of its secondary sources returned HTTP 403. The bill's versions list includes "Floor Amend 1 AM 56 0043" -- a filed floor amendment, matching the reported account that Hufstetler had found support for an amendment restoring the bill's original form. Two internal spaces in the status string are reproduced verbatim from the API response.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 'Georgia Senate votes to claw back data center tax breaks' (Kristi Swartz) journalism two-reviewer
“Hufstetler is the author of Senate Bill 34, which would have forced Georgia Power to charge data centers for all new power plants, transmission infrastructure, fuel, and other costs that were only incurred to serve the facilities. That bill was watered down, however, and eventually got shoehorned into the one that passed Friday. "Ninety percent of people want this protection," Hufstetler said. "I don't know why we don't make this stronger and codify it into law."”
Article body, paragraph beginning 'Hufstetler is the author'
https://www.ajc.com/business/2026/03/georgia-senate-votes-to-claw-back-data-center-tax-breaks/
Real-text HTML article fetched directly via curl with a browser UA.
The Current GA (syndicating Georgia Recorder, by Alander Rocha), 'Georgia Senate votes to end tax breaks for new data centers' journalism two-reviewer
“That same language was attached earlier to another data center bill, Senate Bill 34, against the wishes of Rome Republican Sen. Chuck Hufstetler, the bill’s sponsor. Hufstetler indicated that, unlike his original proposal, the rule does not necessarily protect consumers from all costs associated with data center growth. His bill was up for a vote last week, but the Senate suddenly adjourned when Hufstetler found enough support for an amendment that would have returned the bill to its original form – a version that the utility company and representatives from the data center industry opposed.”
Article body, paragraph beginning 'That same language was attached earlier'
https://thecurrentga.org/2026/03/07/georgia-senate-votes-to-end-tax-breaks-for-new-data-centers/
Real-text HTML article fetched directly via curl with a browser UA. Published March 7, 2026, this places S.B. 34's floor-vote stall in late February 2026 ('last week'), independently of a separately-reported (but not independently re-verified this tick) similar February 2025 episode -- see instrument notes.