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  "id": "ga-sb34-2025-2026-large-load-ratepayer-cost-shift-bill-folded-into-sb410",
  "jurisdiction": "GA",
  "kind": "statute",
  "status": "withdrawn",
  "title": "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",
  "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",
  "docket_no": null,
  "agency": "Georgia General Assembly",
  "utility": null,
  "verification": "verified",
  "updated_at": "2026-08-20T06:48:05.156405+00:00",
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  "snapshot_built_at": "2026-09-14T14:33:17+00:00",
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      "title": "Georgia General Assembly, legislation record for S.B. 34 (2025-2026 Regular Session), id 69551",
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    {
      "url": "https://www.ajc.com/business/2026/03/georgia-senate-votes-to-claw-back-data-center-tax-breaks/",
      "pinpoint": "Article body, paragraph beginning 'Hufstetler is the author'",
      "quote": "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.\"",
      "quote_chars": 467,
      "title": "Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 'Georgia Senate votes to claw back data center tax breaks' (Kristi Swartz)",
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    {
      "url": "https://thecurrentga.org/2026/03/07/georgia-senate-votes-to-end-tax-breaks-for-new-data-centers/",
      "pinpoint": "Article body, paragraph beginning 'That same language was attached earlier'",
      "quote": "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.",
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      "title": "The Current GA (syndicating Georgia Recorder, by Alander Rocha), 'Georgia Senate votes to end tax breaks for new data centers'",
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