Trevor Wagener: Bill would undermine tech startups in Utah
Spencer Cox should veto Senate Bill 228, which would load tech startups with unsustainable costs.
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This July 9, 2019, photo shows a sign outside of the Twitter office building in San Francisco.
By Trevor Wagener | Special to The Tribune
| March 17, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox ran on a promise to incentivize local business growth with fewer regulations, and later offered his “2020 vision for economic strength.” Utah recently has emerged as a tech hub, attracting both investors and entrepreneurs.
Now the Legislature has sent Cox a bill that would undermine tech companies and startups that allow users to generate content.
The governor also signed measures on COVID-19 vaccines and launching a state flag review.
(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) A Utahraptor skull reconstruction is displayed next to the speaker’s seat in the House chamber at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 5, 2021, the final day of the Utah Legislature’s 2021 general session. HB 322 creates a state park in Utah that would protect the dinosaur quarry in the Dalton Wells area near Moab.
| March 17, 2021, 5:40 p.m.
Utah is getting two new state parks, one paying tribute to its official “state dinosaur” and another protecting a recreational area in Morgan County.
All Utah adults will be eligible for COVID vaccines on April 1, governor says
State expects to have 1.5 million doses by April 10.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kris Romijin gets his Covid-19 vaccination from MacKenzie Heffernan, at the Mountain America Expo site in Sandy on Monday, March 8, 2021. | Updated: March 11, 2021, 3:00 a.m.
Prompted by the impending end of the state’s mask mandate on April 10, Gov. Spencer Cox said he anticipates that COVID-19 vaccines will be available to every adult in Utah by April 1.
“Once it became clear that the Legislature planned to end the mask mandate immediately, and with a veto proof majority,” said Cox spokeswoman Jennifer Napier-Pearce, “our administration worked with them to push the date back to get as many people vaccinated as possible.”