Provides that, effective September 1, 2008, the liquor control board shall add an equivalent surcharge of $0.42 per liter on all retail sales of spirits, excluding licensee, military, and tribal sales.

Provides that fifty percent of the money derived from this surcharge is to be appropriated to the department of social and health services, division of alcohol and substance abuse, for the sole purpose of funding treatment for the chemically dependent who would otherwise be unable to obtain treatment. The remaining fifty percent of the money derived from the surcharge is to be appropriated to the traffic safety commission for the sole purpose of providing grants to local government for the driving under the influence emphasis patrol programs.