# Kentucky HB 593 (2026 RS) — LRC bill record ("AN ACT relating to data centers") > *Extract of the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission's official bill-record page for House Bill 593, 2026 Regular Session, archived 2026-06-10. The original HTML is preserved alongside this file. The LRC page was last updated 2026-06-05.* ## Source metadata - **Publisher:** Kentucky Legislative Research Commission (apps.legislature.ky.gov) - **URL:** https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26rs/HB593.html - **Archived:** 2026-06-10, by PowerShell Invoke-WebRequest - **Wayback snapshot:** https://web.archive.org/web/20260521004046/https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26rs/hb593.html (organic snapshot, 2026-05-21) ## Extract - **Bill:** House Bill 593, 2026 Regular Session (Bill Request Number 1235) - **Title:** "AN ACT relating to data centers." - **Sponsors:** J. Bray, J. Petrie, D. Elliott, J. Gooch Jr., K. King, D. Osborne - **Last action (as captured):** 03/31/26 — returned to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S) **Summary of Original Version (verbatim):** "Create new sections of KRS Chapter 96 relating to municipal utilities and KRS Chapter 278 relating to Public Service Commission-regulated utilities to: define terms; only allow for the provision of electric service to a data center through a contract that conforms to the requirements of the Act; require that within 90 days of the effective date of the Act, the electric service provider issue or file a tariff setting forth the process for a data center customer to apply for service; require the payment of a nonrefundable service application fee; require the preparation of studies to determine the manner in which the electric service provider can safely and efficiently serve the data center in a way that does not have negative service or rate impacts to their non-data center customers; establish the minimum contract requirements between the electric service provider and the data center customer; provide that requirements of the Act that are conflict with the Tennessee Valley Authority's requirements for the distribution of electricity that it supplies shall not apply; prohibit the charging or allocating of any costs associated with serving or constructing new infrastructure to serve a data center to any other customers served by natural gas, water, or wastewater utilities; amend KRS 154.20-229 to require that a qualified data center project that has been preliminarily approved for a certificate of exemption under KRS 139.499 include in its memorandum of agreement with the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority a certification that the data center project complies or will comply with all applicable local requirements and the applicable requirements of the Act." **Legislative history (actions list):** | Date | Action | |---|---| | 02/06/26 | Introduced in House; to Committee on Committees (H) | | 02/10/26 | To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H) | | 02/26/26 | Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) | | 02/27/26 | 2nd reading, to Rules | | 03/03/26 | Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 04 2026 | | 03/04/26 | **3rd reading, passed 90-8 with Committee Substitute (1)** | | 03/05/26 | Received in Senate; to Committee on Committees (S) | | 03/27/26 | To Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S); taken from committee; 1st reading; returned to committee | | 03/31/26 | Taken from Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S); 2nd reading; returned to committee | **House Committee Substitute 1 (summary, abridged):** retains original provisions; extends the municipal-utility tariff deadline from 90 to 180 days; adjusts curtailment-obligation language; exempts data centers on U.S. Department of Energy-owned sites and pre-existing electric-service contracts; adds definitions for "generation and transmission cooperative" and "retail electric supplier"; requires data-center customers to pay the full cost of cost-of-service studies (including third-party transmission studies); excludes data-center load from the peak-load determination used to cap net-metering availability. ## Notes - **Tier 2** — primary public record: the Kentucky General Assembly's official bill-record page, published by the Legislative Research Commission. - This record replaces the bare external URL previously cited on [[Large-Load Cost-Allocation Comparators]] for Kentucky HB 593, and adds the official legislative history: the bill **passed the Kentucky House 90-8 on 2026-03-04** (with Committee Substitute 1) and, as of the LRC page's 2026-06-05 update, sits in the Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee after two readings (last action 2026-03-31). The "pay their own way" characterization in the LPM/KPR coverage (`web archive/2026-06-04/www.lpm.org/ky-hb593-data-centers-pay-their-own-way-2026-02-12.md`) is consistent with the official summary's no-negative-rate-impact and cost-allocation-prohibition provisions. - The enrolled/engrossed bill text PDFs and roll-call detail remain unarchived (the record page links them); the Kentucky PSC order approving the EKPC DCP tariff also remains a follow-on. - Cited by: [[Large-Load Cost-Allocation Comparators]].