Virginia

SB 1358 (2025): underground transmission pilot with costs assigned to data center customers (did not pass)

Legislation introduced (any outcome)

Did not pass This measure did not pass.

Scope

Virginia Senate Bill 1358 of the 2025 Regular Session would have required the State Corporation Commission to approve certain proposed 500-kilovolt transmission lines as underground pilot projects, with localities paying part of unrecovered costs and the remainder assigned to the utility’s data center customers. It was not enacted.

Geographic scope
Virginia
Jurisdiction
State
Authority type
Legislature
Issuing authority
Virginia General Assembly

Dates

Adopted
No adoption day is recorded
Effective
Never took effect (did not pass)
Scheduled expiration
None scheduled
Ended
22 February 2025
Completion condition
None stated
Source document
The source page states no document date
Last checked
23 September 2026 (earlier than tracker date 5 October 2026; not an automatic status change)

Summary

Virginia Senate Bill 1358 of 2025 would have required the State Corporation Commission to approve certain proposed 500-kilovolt transmission lines as underground pilot projects, with localities paying part of unrecovered costs and the remainder assigned to the utility’s data center customers. The Division of Legislative Services 2025 Session Summary lists it as failed; the 2025 Regular Session adjourned sine die on 22 February 2025, so it did not become law.

What this does not establish

  • The Legislative Information System bill page (the primary source link) is a JavaScript application whose bill text and history could not be read automatically when checked; the description and outcome come from the Division of Legislative Services 2025 Session Summary, not from a reading of the bill text.
  • 22 February 2025 is the day the 2025 Regular Session adjourned sine die; the Session Summary, which covers the session through that day, lists the bill as failed. The committee or floor action on which it failed, and its exact day, were not opened.
  • The bill concerned transmission siting generally; data centers appear as the customers to whom remaining costs would be assigned.

Unresolved questions

None recorded.

Relationships

Supersession means a later instrument replaces the earlier legal effect. Repeal links identify the repeal instrument and the measure it ends. A later implementation or related letter is not treated as a replacement unless the record says so.

  • No related action is recorded.

Sources

Primary source

https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1358

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