For the Week of September 8, 2026
View our legislative session calendar here.
- In session or committee meetings: Blue
- Upcoming or in special session: Red
- Adjourned or in recess: Grey
Also meeting: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, PUERTO RICO, GUAM, NORTH MARIANA ISLANDS and UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS.
STATE AND LOCAL HIGHLIGHTS
GEORGIA
On September 10, the Savannah City Council will hold a public hearing and consider adoption of an ordinance establishing a temporary moratorium on development or conversion activity involving large-scale data centers with electrical capacity of 10 megawatts or greater. The ordinance would also temporarily prohibit the conversion of warehouses and industrial buildings of 200,000 square feet or more to data center use. The moratorium would give the city additional time to review its zoning and development regulations governing large data center facilities before allowing new qualifying projects to move forward.
The Council will also consider a zoning text amendment associated with the city’s Housing Toolkit. The ordinance would revise multiple base zoning districts, use standards, development standards, and definitions to allow additional housing types in more areas of the city.
Contact: Stephanie Rojo
MICHIGAN
On September 8, the Ann Arbor City Council will consider an ordinance creating a new Tenants Bill of Rights title within the City Code and establishing a new chapter addressing tenants’ right to organize. The proposal would formally establish protections related to tenant organizing within the city’s housing regulations.
Contact: Stephanie Rojo
OHIO
On September 8, the Cincinatti City Council’s Budget, Finance and Governance Committee will consider an ordinance substantially revising Chapter 413 of the Cincinnati Municipal Code governing licensed parking garages and parking lots. The proposal would establish updated standards related to safety, security, signage, fencing, parking-payment tickets, vehicle removal, sanitation, and penalties. It would also create processes for hardship reductions and exemptions and make corresponding changes to the city’s civil-offense provisions.
Contact: Stephanie Rojo
WASHINGTON
On September 9, the Seattle City Council’s Housing, Arts and Civil Rights Committee will consider Council Bill 121278, which would amend Seattle’s definition of sexual orientation across multiple sections of the municipal code. The legislation would expressly include gender identities outside the gender binary, pansexuality, asexuality, and consensual relationships involving multiple partners within the city’s civil-rights protections. The changes would apply across several provisions of city law where sexual orientation is included as a protected characteristic.
Contact: Stephanie Rojo
