Prohibits the state liquor and cannabis board from denying a spirits retail license to an applicant that is not a contract liquor store or operating rights holder because there is a spirits retail license holder in the trade area that the applicant proposes to serve if: (1) The applicant's location is within a rural county; and

(2) At the time the application is submitted there is not a spirits retail license holder within a fifteen-mile travel distance of the applicant's location.