SB3114 Summary

• Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934 to modify restrictions on alcohol sales within 100 feet of churches, schools, and hospitals.

• Maintains a general 100-foot restriction on retail liquor licenses near these institutions, but creates numerous specific exceptions for particular properties and circumstances.

• Allows licenses in municipalities over 500,000 population for hotels, restaurants, and grocery stores where alcohol sales are incidental to the primary business, subject to local ordinance requirements.

• Adds multiple subsections (subsections (b) through (aaaa)) that permit alcohol licenses for specific named properties and situations, most in large municipalities, when certain conditions are met such as building age, property dimensions, distance measurements, and written approval from religious leaders or school officials.

• Includes provisions allowing religious institutions themselves to sell alcohol when groups assemble for purposes other than alcohol consumption, and permits certain pre-existing licenses to be renewed despite proximity to schools and churches.