Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for SB1516

Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Authorizes the Illinois Liquor Control Commission to, in its discretion, honor requests for interpretive opinions and issue reasonable directions and guidelines not inconsistent with the provisions of the Act. Requires all interpretive opinions, directions, and guidelines of a general character to be sent electronically to all licensees and to be posted on the Commission's website. Contains a nonacceleration provision. Effective immediately.

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Removes a specific exception to a prohibition on issuing a retailer's license to a person licensed as a distiller or wine manufacturer. Effective immediately.

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes: Provides that the changes made by the amendatory Act shall not diminish or impair the rights of any person, whether a distiller, wine manufacturer, agent, or affiliate thereof, who requested in writing and submitted documentation to the Illinois Liquor Control Commission on or before February 18, 2015 to be approved for a retail license pursuant to a certain provision; provided that, on or before that date, the State Commission considered the intent of that person to apply for the retail license under a specified provision that was removed by the amendatory Act and, by recorded vote, the State Commission approved a resolution indicating that such a license application could be lawfully approved upon that person duly filing a formal application for a retail license and if that person, within 90 days of the State Commission appearance and recorded vote, first filed an application with the appropriate local commission, which application was subsequently approved by the appropriate local commission prior to consideration by the State Commission of that person's application for a retail license. Provides that the State Commission may approve the person's application for a retail license or renewals of such license if such person continues to diligently adhere to all representations made in writing to the State Commission on or before February 18, 2015, or thereafter, or in the affidavit filed by that person with the State Commission to support the issuance of a retail license and to abide by all applicable laws and duly adopted rules. Effective immediately.

If and only if Senate Bill 398 of the 99th General Assembly becomes law and the changes to Section 6-11 of the Liquor Control Act of 1934 in that bill become law in the form in which they appear in House Amendment No. 2 to that bill, amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934 by deleting language providing that a local liquor control commissioner may grant an exemption to the prohibition on the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor within 100 feet of a church, school, hospital, home for aged or indigent persons or for veterans, or a military or naval station if a local rule or ordinance authorizes the local liquor control commissioner to grant that exemption. Provides that those changes become effective upon becoming law or on the date Senate Bill 398 of the 99th General Assembly takes effect, whichever is later.

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