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January 2026

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February 2026 · December 2025

3 milestones in January 2026

1 approval · 1 lawsuit filed · 1 law signed

Newest: , law signed, S4928: Requires payment of prevailing wage for certain data center construction..

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Tuesday, January 20 1

  1. Law signed

    S4928: Requires payment of prevailing wage for certain data center construction., New Jersey

    S. 4928 was signed.

    njleg.state.nj.us, primary source

January 2026, no day given 2

  1. Lawsuit filed

    Port Washington, Wisconsin

    Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce and six other business groups filed lawsuit against Port Washington in late January 2026

    wpr.org, local outlet (the month its own sentence names; no day is given; filed under Feb 4, 2026)

  2. Approval

    Missouri

    In January, elected officials for the city of Warrenton, Missouri, voted unanimously to approve a data center plan that would include two buildings each four times larger than a Costco warehouse or Walmart supercenter

    lailluminator.com, local outlet (the month its own sentence names; no day is given; filed under Sep 12, 2026)

Bill data from LegiScan, licensed CC BY 4.0. The record chooses the bills, writes each stage in its own words and cites the legislature's own page for every bill. A bill or a law on this page was found through LegiScan; the line cites the legislature's own page.

Also on the record for January 2026

22 acts of another kind and 6 lines of background, plans and statements

Not on this page, by the rule at the top: 22 acts of another kind and 6 lines of background, plans and statements. Each sits on its home record, a project page, a scorecard row on its state, county or city page, a bill page or a laws page, and on each state's own timeline, where every act of the month is listed with the lines under it. The Daily Record lists every row by the day it entered the record.