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SUMMARY:"Wine in Grocery Stores" Bill Scratched This Session - WPLN
DESCRIPTION:WPLN\n“Wine in Grocery Store” Bill Scratched This Session\nProduced daily by your WPLN News Staff\nBy Joe White\nWednesday\, April 15\, 2009\nGrocery shoppers won’t be able to buy wine in their local supermarket – at least not this year\, after the state legislature shelved a bill to allow such sales .\nDickson Representative David Shepard says he gave up on the measure when he couldn’t muster enough votes to pass it in a House subcommittee.\nIt was my sense that we really did not have the support of the House and the Senate to pass wine in grocery store this year. And we discussed this with the grocery store people\, and they agreed.”\nGrocery retailers have made a concerted effort to get wine on the shelves for two years.\nThe issue will now be studied in a joint committee this summer.\nRepresentative Shepard was able to get another bill out of a subcommittee – one that would allow wine to be shipped direct to a consumer’s door. The Senate has already approved the measure\, but it still has to go through at least two more committees in the House before final passage.\nWEB EXTRA\nRepresentative Shepard says the decision to delay the ‘wine in grocery stores’ bill was made with the concurrence of retail grocers who had sought the new law.\n“What we’d like to do is have a joint\, House-Senate study committee….\nAnd hopefully we can look at the issue from a real broad perspective\, and try to find ways to make it work.”\nThe wine-in-grocery-store bill is HB 1157 Shepard/SB 121 Ketron.\nThe bill is shown as “taken off notice” in the House Local Government Subcommittee\, which usually means the bill is permanently parked and not intended to move forward.\nThe fiscal note\, or cost of the bill\, shows a potential increase in tax revenue due to increased sale of wine – but that argument has been attacked by opponents. See our previous story on the bill\: Opponents of “Wine in Grocery Stores” Lobby at State Capitol\nDirect shipment of wine\nThe bill to allow direct sales of wine for home shipment is SB 0166 Stanley/HB1155 Shepard.\nShepard says the bill will allow Tennessee wine-makers to participate in a multi-state market.\n“The local wineries that are having a hard time making it this year\, our agricultural products – this will help them get customers for their products. Other\, thirty-five states\,…already do it.”\nThe bill passed in the Senate 22-8 on Monday\, April 13. A previous WPLN story gave some of the financial background for passing the bill\: Home Delivery of Wine One Step Closer in Tennessee\n© Copyright 2009 WPLN\n
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