SPRINGFIELD - If you like liquor and candy, you have a little time to stock up.

Lawmakers voted this week to raise the taxes on liquor, beer, candy and other products and increase fees for drivers in order to pay for a statewide plan to fix the state's roads and buildings.

But those new taxes won't take effect immediately, even if Gov. Pat Quinn gives it final approval.

If they're approved as proposed, higher taxes on alcoholic beverages and the application of sales taxes to candy, soft drinks and certain hygiene products wouldn't take effect until Aug. 1.

"We'd have to give the retailers time to retool," said Department of Revenue spokeswoman Sue Hofer.

Increased vehicle fees wouldn't go up immediately, either.

Registration fees won't jump from $79 to $99 until next year. So if a car's registration is set to expire in January of 2010 or after, it'll cost $99.

More fortunate people whose registrations expire between July and December of this year would still pay the $79 fee, said Secretary of state spokesman Henry Haupt.

The same goes for the driver's license fee increases. If it expires this year, it'd be $10. Next year would be $30.

In addition, machines for video gambling such as video poker could be put in bars in order to pay for the plan. Before that happens, though, the Illinois Gaming Board would have to set up a system to regulate them. That could take at least six months.

These tax and fee increases would join changes to the Illinois Lottery as the means to pay for a $26 billion plan to fix the state's roads, bridges and schools.

It still faces obstacles on the way to approval. Gov. Pat Quinn still has to act, and he's expressed concern about some of the proposed taxes.