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Senate advances GOEO cleanup bill after debate over political affiliation and representation
Summary
Second substitute Senate Bill 84 restructures and renames the Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity (GOEO), reduces its business development board from 15 to 9 members and creates an AI/innovation pilot; critics argued removing party-affiliation language risks marginalizing minority voices and could undermine geographic representation.
Second substitute Senate Bill 84, described as largely a technical cleanup for the Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity (GOEO), was the subject of extended floor discussion before being read for a third time.
What the bill does: Sponsors said the bill replaces references to GO Utah with GOEO, clarifies statutory purposes, reduces the business development board membership from 15 to 9, sets member categories (rural community, entrepreneurship, higher education, five targeted-industry seats and one at-large…
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