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Senate narrowly approves wide-ranging rewrite of Utah alcohol laws, eliminating mini-bottles and banning brown-bagging
Summary
After hours of debate, the Utah Senate passed Senate Bill 141, a 291-page revision of state alcohol law that ends mini-bottles, phases out brown-bagging, adds metered dispensing, increases certain liquor licenses and funds enforcement; the final Senate vote was 23-2 with phased effective dates.
The Utah Senate voted 23-2 to pass Senate Bill 141, a far-reaching rewrite of the state's alcohol laws that sponsors said would "give better control on consumption because it eliminates brown bagging." Senator Carling, the task-force sponsor, told colleagues the 291-page measure replaces mini-bottles with calibrated dispensing devices and expands limited restaurant and private-club licenses, with special attention to rural areas.
The bill eliminates the mini bottle and phases in new rules: the ban on bringing outside bottles into establishments (so-called "brown-bagging") was set to take effect July 1, 1990, and the mini-bottle phaseout July 1, 1991. Carling said the proposal would allow servers to deliver controlled mixed drinks to tables using metered dispensers…
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