Data Center Prevailing Wage & PLA Requirements (SB1048)

Current understanding

SB1048 would amend 1939 PA 3 (MCL 460.1–460.11) by adding Sec. 10ii to require project labor agreements and prevailing wage and fringe benefit rates for certain data center contracts entered into by electric utilities. It appears to serve as a Senate counterpart to HB6141, but adds explicit prevailing wage/fringe benefit standards on top of the PLA requirement. Status: introduced.

Evidence log

• 2026-06-18 — Businesses: other; community benefit agreements; require certain data centers to be subject to. Creates new act.: cross-connection with data-center-community-benefit-act-sb1050: Both are Senate-side components of an emerging data center regulatory package (SB1048, SB1050) mirroring the House’s HB6135–HB6142 series. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-06-18 — Public utilities: electric utilities; project labor agreements and prevailing wage and fringe benefit rates; require for certain data center contracts. Amends 1939 PA 3 (MCL 460.1 - 460.11) by adding sec. 10ii.: cross-connection with data-center-project-labor-agreements: HB6141 (Sec. 10kk) and SB1048 (Sec. 10ii) are parallel House/Senate vehicles imposing labor standards on utility contracts for data centers; SB1048 layers prevailing wage and fringe benefit requirements onto the PLA framework. (novelty: 3)

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