UNIVERSITY: HOTEL LIQUOR LICENSE - S.B. 1200: COMMITTEE SUMMARY
Senate Bill 1200 (as introduced 4-5-00)
Sponsor: Senator John J.H. Schwarz, M.D.
Committee: Economic Development, International Trade and Regulatory Affairs
CONTENT
The bill would amend the Michigan Liquor Control Code to permit the Liquor Control Commission to issue a Class B hotel license to a hotel and conference center owned and operated by a university as part of a hospitality program.
Notwithstanding the Code's provisions on the issuance of liquor licenses and subject to the Code's quota system, the Commission could issue a license to a university hotel and conference center owned and operated by a university that met all of the following: contained a hotel with at least 150 guest rooms; had a restaurant seating at least 125 guests that served a full-menu breakfast, lunch, and dinner; had more than 30,000 square feet of flexible meeting space; and, was open year-round to provide services to the public and to serve the mission of the hospitality program. In addition, the university would have to have a hospitality program that provided at least all of the following at the hotel and conference center site as part of the hospitality program: student education classrooms, a working hospitality laboratory setting; and, use of rotational interns each semester or equivalent time period.
In public areas of the hotel and conference center, the sale and consumption of alcoholic liquor would be limited to table service only unless the public areas were reserved for private functions.
("Hospitality program" would mean a course of academic study that, at a minimum, was a nationally accredited program at baccalaureate and graduate levels in the hospitality business that required at least 120 semester credits or the equivalent for completion of the baccalaureate degree and that had a teaching and research staff predominated by individuals with at least doctoral degrees.)
Proposed MCL 436.1514 - Legislative Analyst: L. Arasim
FISCAL IMPACT
The bill would have no fiscal impact on State or local government
- Fiscal Analyst: M. TyszkiewiczS9900\s1200sa
This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.