Rules committee moves SR 668 and SB 447 to Standing Rules after narrowing SR 668 to data centers

The Senate Rules Committee voted unanimously to transfer SR 668 and SB 447 from the Rules calendar to the Standing Rules committee. The chairman called for the voice vote after senators agreed to move both items together.

Senator Dolezal moved to transfer SR 668 and said the measure originally aimed to allow separate tax digests for manufacturing property types, including data centers, effectively removing the uniformity clause. "We're gonna change that bill hopefully in standing rules to only be a bill that would be focused on data centers exclusively and not other manufacturing properties or industrial properties," the sponsor said.

Senator Dixon and another senator amended the motion so SB 447 would be moved at the same time. SB 447 was described as a bill that passed out of a committee dealing with permitting and housing permitting and would add a statutory shot clock for municipal permitting processes and make provisions for virtual inspections.

The chairman announced the motion carried unanimously. No amendments were adopted on the floor of the Rules Committee that day; both measures were sent to Standing Rules for further consideration.

The committee then moved on to the consideration calendar to hear a series of brief bill presentations.