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Committee advances bill to streamline local development rules, add brownfield and BES provisions and restore 1% tax on data-center equipment
Summary
HB 1333 passed out of committee 14–6 after debate over public-meeting registration, brownfield liability protections, siting of battery energy storage, and restoring a 1% sales-tax payment on data-center equipment (previously exempted). Members signaled they may revisit the 1% rate on second reading.
Representative Culp presented HB 1333 as a multi-part bill: it would let local plan commissions require speakers at public hearings to register name and address, allow brownfield redevelopment with limited developer liability, simplify local approvals for development on lower-quality agricultural land, permit battery energy storage systems in energy enterprise zones, and alter a 2019 data-center sales-tax…
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