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Senate backs regulatory sandbox bill but tables it on third reading over fiscal concerns
Summary
Senators praised a regulatory sandbox (H.B. 217) designed to let innovators test ideas with limited regulatory relief, but after unanimous support to read the bill a third time, lawmakers tabled the measure on third because of a fiscal note. Sponsor said the program would be administered by GOED and would not exempt health and safety rules.
The Utah Senate debated and temporarily halted first substitute H.B. 217, a bill to create a regulatory 'sandbox' enabling innovators to apply for a one-year suspension of certain administrative regulations to test proof-of-concept projects.
Senator Milner described the bill as a way to "make sure that Utah has the absolute…
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