Alcohol sales in dairies will be banned and grocery stores forced to make their liquor sales more discrete after the Government accepted 130 changes to its controversial alcohol reform bill.

The Government has immediately accepted all of their suggested changes and has also announced an expert forum to look in to tighter restrictions on advertising and sponsorship to reduce alcohol-related harm.

The select committee report does not suggest any changes to the proposed split alcohol purchase age, which would allow 18 year olds to drink at a bar but not allow them to buy from an off-license until they turn 20.

However, it does suggest a series of other changes, including:

Banning the sale of liquor at "convenience stores";

Forcing unlicensed police, fire and defence force bars to implement internal codes of practice with rules around not selling alcohol to intoxicated people, providing free drinking water, and restricting who they can sell alcohol to;

Introducing powers to force liquor companies to provide price and sales data to inform the Government's consideration of a minimum alcohol price;

Implement changes to the definition of "grocery stores", tightening up which stores are allowed to sell liquor;

Allowing bars to open for breakfast from 6am, but preventing them from selling alcohol until the time allowed by their license;

Relaxing the proposed nation-wide trading hours (8am to 4am) for genuine events like live northern hemisphere sporting fixtures and champagne breakfasts through a special license process;

Restricting manager's certificates to those aged 20 and over.

Justice Minister Simon Power said the Government accepted those suggestions and all of the others raised by the committee.

The Government's original bill included a clause to ban the sale of liquor in dairies, but Power said the select committee had made the ban "explicit".

The committee also recommended adding a new clause to require supermarkets and grocery stores to display alcohol in only one area of the store.

"This clause also stipulates that the alcohol display area must not be in a prominent area of the store, and would restrict alcohol advertising and promotions to that designated area," the committee report says.

Power said the updated bill would help to build "a strong and enduring legislative framework to reduce alcohol-related harm and support a safe and responsible drinking culture."

It would get a second reading in Parliament before Parliament rises on October 6, but it was unclear whether it would pass in to law before the election.

Power also announced Cabinet had agreed to set up an expert forum to look in to further restrictions on alcohol advertising and sponsorship.

The bill would strengthens the existing offence of promotion of excessive consumption of alcohol and by making it an offence to promote alcohol in a way that has special appeal to minors.

However, select committee submission suggested people wanted the Government to go further.

"The forum could examine current research and international developments, as well as the outcomes from the Advertising Standard Authority's current review of the code for advertising liquor," Power said.

"The forum could also consider what impact further restrictions, such as those proposed by the Law Commission, would have on the recipients of sponsorship funding such as community organisations and sports teams."

The forum would be set up by the end of the year and would report back to the Ministers of Justice and Health within a year of the bill being passed on whether they believed further restrictions should be made.

Power also said the Government would commit an additional $10 million a year towards alcohol and other drug treatment services and workforce development. The funding came out of alcohol excise revenue.

Green Party MP Sue Kedgley said despite the changes accepted by the Government, the bill still failed to address advertising, sponsorship and price issues.

"It's disappointing that the bill does nothing to stop supermarkets from engaging in the predatory practice of selling alcohol at extraordinarily cheap prices to lure customers, especially young customers, into their stores," Kedgley said.

"We'll never reduce our binge drinking culture if we allow alcohol to be sold so cheaply that young people can load up for binge drinking sessions every weekend."