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Senate adopts broad alcohol-policy changes amid debate over restaurant proximity and youth prevention
Summary
A third substitute of House Bill 442 — covering restaurant/bar definitions, proximity rules, youth-prevention curriculum and retail labeling — passed the Senate after extended debate over changing the proximity threshold from 600 to 300 feet for restaurants and the role of waivers and grandfathering.
The Senate on Feb. 27 passed a third substitute of House Bill 442 containing multiple changes to Utah’s alcohol rules, including a clarified delineation between restaurants and bars, proximity limits between alcohol-serving establishments and churches/schools/parks, new labeling rules for alcohol products, and a youth-prevention education requirement to be coordinated with the Office of Education.
Senator Jay Stevenson, the floor sponsor, described the bill as…
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