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Senate passes broad rewrite of alcohol licensing; allows online training, creates new license categories
Summary
The Utah Senate passed SB314, an overhaul of alcohol licensing that increases restaurant licenses, reduces tavern quotas, creates new license types (including reception and beer-only licenses), clarifies conflict-of-interest rules for regulators, and permits online training with supervised testing.
The Utah Senate on Feb. 25 approved Senate Bill 314, a package of alcohol licensing and regulatory changes that sponsors and supporters said aims to balance economic development with public-safety protections.
Sponsor Senator Valentine told colleagues the bill addresses a licensing shortage and rebalances permits to favor restaurants over taverns. "We're out of licenses for restaurants. We have additional capacity for taverns," he said, arguing that restaurants provide stronger economic benefit to communities.
The bill increases the number of restaurant licenses by 40, creates new license types (including a beer-only restaurant and a beer-only…
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