Posted on 06/02/2021 8:20:36 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Legislature approved a bill Friday that will loosen alcohol restrictions on Sunday mornings. Starting Sept. 1, Texans will be able to purchase beer and wine at stores at 10 a.m. Under current law, stores can’t sell booze until noon.
The Texas House approved House Bill 1518 on Friday by a vote of 115-24 with two lawmakers voting present. That approved the House bill with a Senate amendment that allows hotels to sell alcohol to hotel guests at any time of day.
The bill was sponsored by Rep. Harold Dutton Jr., D-Houston, sponsored the bill.
Lawmakers also passed alcohol-to-go law
Earlier this month, lawmakers passed House Bill 1024, which allowed restaurants to continue selling alcohol to-go.
Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order in March 2020 allowing restaurants to sell alcohol to-go in an effort to help restaurants struggling without customers during the COVID-19 pandemic. HB 1024 made codified that executive order, making it permanent.
Bills to allow liquor sales on Sunday unlikely to pass
Two bills — House Bill 2232 and Senate Bill 1013 — which would have allowed liquor sales on Sunday were left pending in committee. That means they are very unlikely to become law.
The “Boot the Ban” lobbying effort to get lawmakers to repeal the Sunday ban on alcohol sales targeted the May 22 NASCAR race in Austin and sponsored the No. 26 car, but their efforts appear to have failed.
I didn’t know we still had blue laws in this country.
Good, now I can get my mid-morning fix without having to resort to fetanyl. What a lifesaver.
Yes, we still have blue laws in the South.
Essential in Biden’s America.
You never know when you might want to have a beer before church.
Still have dry counties. Still have blue law not allowing cAr dealers to sell on Sunday. Dealers love this one btw.
Blue Laws: The bane of any tailgater on a Sunday morning in Texas...
I remember being a kid and walking through the grocery store on Sunday and seeing whole sections taped off. It was ridiculous then, and now.
I’m not a huge drinker, but we have some of the most outdated alcohol rules on the books. Since we can buy beer and wine on Sunday, it would be wonderful if hotwheels and company would like to tackle being able to sell spirits on Sundays.
In Connecticut for example, you can only buy alcohol from 10am to 6pm. Yet you can order it in a restaurant or bar up until closing time.
Makes absolutely no sense to me. Isn't it safer for people to be able to purchase liquor and take it home for private consumption than to make them drive to a bar and drink it there?
When I was a kid I remember going to a grocery store on Sunday and wanting my mom to buy me this bouncy ball thing, and I couldn’t understand why the lady couldn’t sell it. Just said it’s illegal. Only food was allowed then. Not sure when it changed but that wasn’t all that terribly long ago.
That's not really fair trying to apply logic to politicians edicts.
Are they still in effect in new england?
I recall when even beer couldn’t be purchased in stores on Sundays and people would have to drive to another state to get some.
Same here. It was bizarrely cruel. Little kids hit the hardest!
There was a time when big box hardware stores could sell some goods but not others.
As a kid I recall going to a K-Mart where aisles would be cordoned off on Sunday. At the time I thought it odd, it was only later I found out it was not only odd it was the LAW.
MI changed the law to allow drinking 7am to 4am 7 days a week just as soon as I stopped drinking.
I guess they had to do something to make up for the revenue loss.
How does an executive order from a governor allow businesses to sell alcohol?
That needs to be a bill.
Crikey! I remember having to drive 12 miles from Richardson, TX to buy beer when I learned about those laws on one of my first business trips to Dallas. It made me bonkers to think that you couldn’t buy beer when you wanted to buy beer. And I grew up in California where they stopped selling booze at 2:00am, or something like that.
I moved to Japan to get away from ever having to experience that silliness again.
Here we can buy booze 24/7 and drink on the street - even in front of the cop boxes, in public parks, and anywhere socially acceptable as long as we don’t cause enough trouble to make someone want to call the cops.
No one usually carries an open container in a shop though, because that would be a little rude, but, yeah, we’ve got it good here.
>>HB 1024 made codified that executive order, making it permanent.
it became one
meanwhile so many “emergency” edicts are still in place coast to coast including election edicts that didn’t even come from governors
Still no mushrooms? What a gyp.
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