Protect local control over data center decisions by limiting corporations' ability to litigate or overturn local approvals and ensuring approved developments benefit the community.
Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr. · Pennsylvania · Republican
Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.
Occurrences
introduced the Local Control Protection Act to curb large corporations' ability to litigate and overturn local decisions regarding data centers and to ensure approved developments benefit the community
Bresnahan introduced legislation to preserve local authority over data center decisions and require community benefits from approved projects.
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The House website’s Latest News section says Bresnahan introduced the Local Control Protection Act to curb large corporations’ ability to litigate and attempt to overturn local data-center decisions and to keep approved developments benefiting the community.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Official congressional website confirms a same-day introduction that directly matches the claim’s local-control and community-benefit elements.
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Axios reported that Bresnahan’s bill would restrict companies’ ability to sue municipalities that reject data-center applications and would require legally binding community benefit agreements.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Independent reporting corroborates the bill’s substance and Bresnahan’s public posture in favor of local control over data-center approvals.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): GovInfo lists the bill's latest action as its June 11, 2026 introduction/referral, with no later enacted or passed status shown; this supports an unresolved same-term legislative attempt, not delivery.
A court of the United States shall not have jurisdiction
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Official bill text directly targets litigation over qualifying local data-center denials, matching the local-control and anti-litigation portion of the promise, but only as introduced legislation.
make publicly available an executed legally enforceable agreement
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Official bill text also addresses the community-benefit component by conditioning data-center tax-credit eligibility on a public enforceable agreement, but the provision is not enacted.
requires local approval before a data center can be built
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): During the lookback window, Bresnahan's campaign continued promoting H.R. 9262 as a local-control measure, showing continued advocacy rather than completed policy delivery.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Recent reporting within the lookback window corroborates that Bresnahan is still promoting the data-center local-control bill but that it has not advanced, leaving the promise unresolved.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): A bill-status tracker checked on September 28, 2026 still lists H.R. 9262 as in committee, giving no sign of enactment, passage, or reversal during the September 26-28 lookback window.
unresolvedsame_termA for effort
Recent bills
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 82%
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Last Action Date Listed
June 11, 2026
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Official GovInfo metadata for Bresnahan's Local Control Protection Act continues to show only the June 11, 2026 introduction/referral action, confirming a same-term legislative effort but not completed delivery.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): A bill-status tracker checked during the lookback window still lists Bresnahan's Local Control Protection Act as in committee, with no sign of enactment or floor passage.
unresolvedsame_termA for effort
Recent bills
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 88%
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Federal bills (U.S. House, 119th Congress): we last checked October 6, 2026 · newest action October 5, 2026
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The tracker indicates its federal House data was refreshed on October 6, 2026, supporting that the in-committee status is a current unresolved status within the lookback window.
unresolvedsame_termA for effort
Recent bills
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 84%
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A court of the United States shall not have jurisdiction to hear any challenge to the determination of a unit of local government to preclude the development of a covered data center
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The introduced bill text directly addresses the promise to limit litigation over local data-center decisions, demonstrating concrete same-term effort but not enactment.
make publicly available an executed legally enforceable agreement with the chief executive of the unit of local government
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The introduced bill text also covers the community-benefit agreement element of the promise, but it remains proposed legislation rather than delivered policy.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): During the lookback window, Daniel Meuser joined Bresnahan's Local Control Protection Act as a cosponsor. This documents additional legislative support for the same-term effort, but does not establish passage, enactment, or delivery. The promise remains unresolved.
Public state: unverifiedAs of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): never.same_termA for effort
Bresnahan materially pursued the promise in his current federal term by introducing the Local Control Protection Act on May 13, 2026, and the bill’s described provisions directly match the pledge to limit corporate litigation over local data-center decisions and require community-benefit commitments. But the evidence provided shows only bill introduction and advocacy, not enactment or any completed federal policy change delivering the promised protection. Under the federal office standard, this is a serious same-term legislative attempt without successful delivery.
provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.4 · confidence 95%