SS/SCS/HCS/HB 184 - This act provides that any political subdivision that adopts an ordinance or other regulation that requires installation of electric vehicle charging stations shall pay all costs associated with the installation, maintenance, and operation of such stations. No political subdivision shall adopt any ordinance or other regulation that requires more than five such stations per parking lot, or infrastructure for future installation of more than five such stations per parking lot. Such ordinances and regulations shall only apply to parking lots with more than thirty parking spaces. No political subdivision shall adopt any ordinance, resolution, regulation, code or policy to require schools or religious organizations to install an electric vehicle charging station.
This act does not prohibit private entities from paying for the installation, maintenance, and operation of electric vehicle charging stations.
Provisions relating to electric vehicle charging stations only apply to the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County.
These provisions are similar to provisions in SB 233 (2023), HB 1584 (2022).
This act creates new provisions relating to digital mining. Specifically, the act permits any person to run a node or a series of nodes in this state for the purpose of home digital asset mining at the person's private residence. A person or entity may have a digital asset mining business in any area in this state that is zoned for industrial use. Furthermore, any person engaged in home digital asset mining or digital asset mining business shall not be considered a money transmitter.
A political subdivision shall not:
· Limit the sound decibels generated from home digital asset mining other than limits set for sound pollution generally;
· Impose any requirements on a digital asset mining business that is not also a requirement for data centers in such political subdivision; or
· Rezone the area in which a digital asset mining business is located without complying with applicable state and local zoning laws or rezone any area with the intent or effect of discriminating against any digital asset mining business.
A digital asset mining business is entitled to appeal any change in zoning pursuant to any applicable state or local zoning laws.
The Public Service Commission shall not establish a rate schedule for digital asset mining that creates discriminatory rates for digital asset mining businesses.
This provisions is identical to SB 536 (2023).
This act modifies the definition of "video service" to include the provision of video programming by a video service provider provided through wireline facilities located in a public right-of-way without regard to the delivery technology. Video services does not include any video programming accessed via a service that enables users to access content over the internet, including streaming content.
This provisions is identical to SB 152 (2023).
JULIA SHEVELEVA