Pass the House Data Center Package — With Severability

Eight House bills — HB 6135 through 6142 — form Lansing’s most comprehensive answer to unregulated data center development: water protections with million-dollar-a-day teeth, community benefits agreements, decommissioning and site restoration, acoustic review, NDA transparency, labor standards, zoning authority, and a dedicated utility rate class.

But the package has a structural flaw we verified in the bills’ own enacting sections: every bill is tie-barred to the others, so none takes effect unless essentially all of them pass. One bill dying in committee kills the entire package. Use the tool below to ask your state legislators to pass the package — and to amend each bill with a severability clause, so the protections that can pass are not held hostage to the ones that can’t.