SB270: Electric Utilities; review by Public Service Commission of certain contracts with large load data centers further provided for
Alabama, 2026 Regular Session. Signed, April 17, 2026.
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SB270 at a glance
Status Signed Signed, .
No official summary is on file yet. The full text is on the legislature's page, linked below.
Measure Bill.
Number SB270, as its own legislature prints it. The record files it under S.B. 270, which is the form this page's address and every export use. The two forms are the same measure. The record normalizes a number so a reader can search one way across fifty states; the legislature's own form is the one printed here.
Sponsors Lance Bell (R)
Subjects Telecommunications & Utilities The legislature's own list.
Official page alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2026RS/SB270-enr.pdf. Found through LegiScan (bill 2109509), whose data is CC BY 4.0; the citation is the legislature's own page.
What happened, and when
- April 17, 2026 Signed
S.B. 270 was signed. alison.legislature.state.al.us primary source [2] The official action text: Enacted.
- April 9, 2026 Passed second chamber
S.B. 270 passed the House. alison.legislature.state.al.us primary source [2] The official action text: Enrolled.
- March 17, 2026 In committee
S.B. 270 went to committee in the House. alison.legislature.state.al.us primary source [2] The official action text: Reported Out of Committee Second House.
- March 12, 2026 In committee
S.B. 270 went to committee in the House. alison.legislature.state.al.us primary source [2] The official action text: Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure.
- February 11, 2026 In committee
S.B. 270 went to committee in the Senate. alison.legislature.state.al.us primary source [2] The official action text: Reported Out of Committee House of Origin.
- February 5, 2026 In committee
S.B. 270 went to committee in the Senate. alison.legislature.state.al.us primary source [2] The official action text: Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development.
- February 5, 2026 Introduced
S.B. 270 was introduced in the Senate. alison.legislature.state.al.us primary source [2] The official action text: Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development.
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Data Center Record, "SB270: Electric Utilities; review by Public Service Commission of certain contracts with large load data centers further provided for", https://datacenterrecord.org/bills/al-2026-sb-270. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
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