State legislation — General Assembly bills
2 record(s) — open one for its full reading and, where it's a story anchor, the teardown.
H.B. No. 983, 136th Ohio General Assembly — As Introduced. The "Data Center Accountability and Citizen Protection Act." Enacts a new R.C. Chapter 3744 imposing air/wastewater discharge standards on data-center and associated-power-plant cooling systems, a local citizen-vote requirement, water-supply liability, grid-independence, and a local tax-incentive ban; and amends R.C. 9.66 to strip the confidentiality of data-center development-and-supply agreements.
hb983-3744 · legal
Sub. H.B. No. 314, 136th Ohio General Assembly — As Passed by the House. Amends R.C. 149.43 (Ohio Public Records Act) to restrict "harassing or disruptive" records requests and to let public offices engage private contractors to answer "voluminous" requests.
hb314-149-43 · legal