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title: "Utah H.B. 491 (2024), Government Data Privacy Act, enrolled"
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date: "2024-03-19"
year: 2024
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# Utah H.B. 491 (2024), Government Data Privacy Act, enrolled

The statute that created Utah's Office of Data Privacy and its governance, the institutional ground on which the State-Endorsed Digital Identity program was later built. For readers who need to know what the host of the SEDI Summits is in law.

Labels: reading level Practitioner; evidence official (a statute, a regulator's document, or a standards body's own page).
Source: https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0491.pdf (license not recorded).
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