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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah would no longer place stickers on every bottle of beer, wine and liquor sold at state liquor stores under a bill initially approved by the Senate.
The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control places about 24 million stickers on the bottles every year at an annual cost of $950,000. The stickers are meant to prevent bootlegging.
However, the DABC can now electronically scan bottles to determine whether they were bought from a state liquor store.
Senate Bill 106, sponsored by Sen. Scott McCoy, D-Salt Lake City, passed unanimously in the Senate on Friday. It needs one more vote before advancing to the House, although McCoy said his bill might be wrapped into a broader bill reforming the state's liquor laws.
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