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House advances USTAR research initiative after amendment to oversight
Summary
The Utah House uncircled and passed First Substitute Senate Bill 75 (USTAR Initiative), authorizing multi-campus innovation centers and added legislative oversight on bond issuance and appointments to the governing board; the final House vote was 63–7.
Representative Dave Clark moved to bring First Substitute Senate Bill 75 (the USTAR Initiative) to the floor and then outlined the bill’s goals, saying Utah’s combined medical, death and genealogical records create a unique research asset. "The Utah population database with 11,000,000 people is the genetic map of the future and exists only in the state of Utah," Clark said, arguing the state must invest to attract research teams and high-paying biotech jobs.
Why it matters: Clark and other backers described USTAR as an economic development and public-health asset, tying university research capacity to private-sector spin-offs. Clark and…
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