Thursday, June 21, 2012

Special session to increase liquor licenses may just be a start

Lawmakers are meeting in a special session Wednesday to look at boosting the number of restaurant liquor
licenses available.

But there may be more action to come on the issue during the 2013 Legislature.

"It's going to need an eventual resolution," Gov. Gary Herbert's spokeswoman, Ally Isom, said Tuesday.

"The governor feels this is a step in the right direction. It may not be the ultimate solution, but it is something to mitigate the current circumstances."

The issue is one of six Herbert is asking lawmakers to deal with in the special session set to begin at 3 p.m.

Also on the agenda is covering a $25 million shortfall in the education budget caused by a calculation error, as well as several technical fixes to legislation passed in the last session. Deseret News