Data Center Community Benefit Agreement Act (HB6137)

Current understanding

HB6137 would create a new standalone Michigan act requiring certain data centers to enter community benefit agreements as a condition of operation. It supplies the substantive framework that HB6136 references when subjecting local zoning decisions to community benefit requirements, and is tie-barred to the broader HB6135–HB6142 data center package coordinating utility ratemaking, zoning, and local obligations. Status: introduced.

Evidence log

• 2026-06-04 — Businesses: other; moratorium on certain approvals for and operation of any new data centers; provide for. Creates new act. TIE BAR WITH: SB 1019’26: SB 1018 introduces a Senate moratorium alternative to the regulate-and-permit approach of HB6137/SB1050, freezing new data center approvals rather than conditioning them on community benefit agreements. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-06-18 — Businesses: other; community benefit agreements; require certain data centers to be subject to. Creates new act.: SB1050 introduces a Senate companion act also requiring certain data centers to enter community benefit agreements, paralleling HB6137’s House framework and signaling bicameral interest in the community benefit approach. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-06-25 — Businesses: other; requirements for data center decommissioning, dismantling, and remediation; provide for. Amends 1939 PA 3 (MCL 460.1 - 460.11) by adding sec. 10jj. TIE BAR WITH: HB 6135’26, HB 6140’26, HB 6141’26, HB 6137’26, HB 6138’26, HB 6139’26: HB6142 (tie-barred companion) adds decommissioning, dismantling, and remediation requirements to the HB6135–HB6142 package, ensuring the community benefit framework is paired with end-of-life site obligations for data centers. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-06-25 — Public employees and officers: other; nondisclosure agreements related to the construction of data centers; prohibit. Creates new act. TIE BAR WITH: HB 6135’26, HB 6141’26, HB 6137’26, HB 6138’26, HB 6142’26, HB 6139’26: HB6140 (tie-barred companion) creates a parallel standalone act prohibiting public employees and officers from signing NDAs related to data center construction, adding a transparency layer to the community benefit agreement framework in the HB6135–HB6142 package. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-06-25 — Construction: permits; acoustic engineering report for data center; require to receive building permit. Amends 1972 PA 230 (MCL 125.1501 - 125.1531) by adding sec. 10a. TIE BAR WITH: HB 6135’26, HB 6140’26, HB 6141’26, HB 6137’26, HB 6138’26, HB 6142’26: HB6139 (tie-barred companion) adds a construction-code layer to the data center package by conditioning building permits on an acoustic engineering report, complementing the community benefit agreement framework. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-06-25 — Businesses: other; data center water usage requirements; provide for. Creates new act. TIE BAR WITH: HB 6135’26, HB 6140’26, HB 6141’26, HB 6137’26, HB 6142’26, HB 6139’26: HB6138 (tie-barred companion) creates a parallel standalone act on data center water usage requirements, complementing the community benefit agreement framework within the HB6135–HB6142 package. (novelty: 4)
• 2026-06-25 — Businesses: other; community benefit agreements; require certain data centers to be subject to. Creates new act. TIE BAR WITH: HB 6135’26, HB 6136’26, HB 6140’26, HB 6141’26, HB 6138’26, HB 6142’26, HB 6139’26: cross-connection with data-center-large-load-rates: Both are core components of the HB6135–HB6142 data center package, pairing utility large-load ratemaking (HB6135) with mandatory community benefit agreements (HB6137). (novelty: 3)

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