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House approves alcohol control amendments increasing airport licenses, limiting flavored-alcohol labeling
Summary
The House passed the fifth substitute of S.B. 173, updating Alcohol Beverage Control rules to codify flavored products with a de minimis flavored-alcohol threshold, expand certain banquet and airport lounge licenses, permit escorted carrying of drinks to tables, and ban 'hard' soda-style products; the substitute passed 69-2.
Representative Burton presented the fifth substitute to Senate Bill 173 on March 2, describing a package of Alcohol Beverage Control Act amendments intended to update licensing and product standards.
Sponsor remarks said the substitute recalculated bar-license counts for an 18-month study period (moving some counts from 10 to 15), clarified a prohibition on advertising on…
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