SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Senate is approving a proposal to raise low alcohol limits for beer sold at Utah grocery and convenience stores.

The measure easily passed on Monday even though it’s opposed by the influential Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and local brewers who say it unfairly upends their business model.

The proposal would increase the alcohol limit from 3.2 percent to 4.8 percent by weight, the amount in most standard production-line beers.

A number of other states have shed similar limitations in recent years, spurring some large brewers to stop making lower-alcohol products for a diminished market of just Utah and Minnesota.

Republican sponsor Sen. Jerry Stevenson says the measure is business bill that will allow store owners to keep their shelves stocked.

It now goes to the House of Representatives.