2025 bills / S.B. 328
S.B. 328 Alcohol Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
This bill changes several Utah alcohol rules. It lets local governments allow licensed alcohol outlets near public parks, lets hotels serve liquor in non-original containers, requires event permit applicants to post a surety bond, and lowers the seating needed for sport and concert venues to get a beer license.
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Official description
- defines terms
- permits a local government to authorize an outlet or restaurant with an alcohol license to be in proximity to a public park under certain conditions
- clarifies the Alcoholic Beverage Services Commission's authority when granting or denying an application for a retail license
- provides that a hotel may serve spirituous liquor in a container that is not the spirituous liquor's original container
- provides that a patron of a facility with multiple licenses may transport beer between the premises under certain conditions
- authorizes staff of a retail licensee that are 21 years old or older to test the quality and taste of liquor using the "straw test"
- removes the requirement that dispensing locations under an equity license be connected by a private roadway
- provides that an equity license applies to all locations owned by an equity licensee
- provides that an amphitheater qualifies for a banquet license
- provides that the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services may approve multiple locations in or on the licensed premises of an on-premise banquet licensee
- lowers the seating capacity threshold for a sport facility or concert venue for purposes of receiving an on-premises beer retailer license
- provides the circumstances under which an off-premise beer retailer may sell beer at a loading area or a designated parking stall
- requires that a person applying for an event permit post a surety bond
- makes technical changes
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Every vote
- 6 yes, 0 no, 1 absentSenate Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to change the bill · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 0 no, 1 absentSenate Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how
- 13 yes, 15 no, 1 absentSenate vote, which failed · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how
- 24 yes, 2 no, 3 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how
- 66 yes, 0 no, 9 absentFinal House vote · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how
- 24 yes, 0 no, 5 absentSenate vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how