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1 91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
2 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT
3 ON SENATE BILL 656
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6 To the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the
7 House of Representatives:
8 We, the conference committee appointed to consider the
9 differences between the houses in relation to House Amendment
10 No. 1 to Senate Bill 656, recommend the following:
11 (1) that the House recede from House Amendment No. 1;
12 and
13 (2) that Senate Bill 656 be amended on page 2, by
14 replacing lines 18 through 31 with the following:
15 "In the interest of further developing Illinois' economy
16 in the area of commerce, tourism, convention, and banquet
17 business, nothing in this Section shall prohibit issuance of
18 a retail license authorizing the sale of alcoholic beverages
19 to a restaurant, banquet facility, grocery store, or hotel
20 having not fewer than 150 guest room accommodations located
21 in a municipality of more than 500,000 persons,
22 notwithstanding the proximity of such hotel, restaurant, or
23 banquet facility, or grocery store to any church or school,
24 if the licensed premises described on the license are located
25 within an enclosed mall or building of a height of at least 6
26 stories, or 60 feet in the case of a building that has been
27 registered as a national landmark, or in a grocery store
28 having a minimum of 56,010 square feet of floor space in a
29 single story building in an open mall of at least 3.96 acres
30 that is adjacent to a public school that opened as a boys
31 technical high school in 1934, and in each of these cases
32 either case if the sale of alcoholic liquors is not the
33 principal business carried on by the licensee license.".
34 Submitted on May 25, 1999
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1 s/Sen. Steve Rauschenberger s/Rep. John Fritchey
2 s/Sen. Chris Lauzen s/Rep. Daniel Burke
3 s/Sen. Dan Cronin s/Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie
4 s/Sen. Debbie Halvorson s/Rep. Tom Cross
5 s/Sen. Louis Viverito s/Rep. Angelo Saviano
6 Committee for the Senate Committee for the House
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