Texas legislature approves bill making alcohol to-go permanent
Texas legislature approves bill making alcohol to-go permanent Cocktail kits are here to stay.
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UPDATE 5-12-2021: Texas
Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 1024 into law on Wednesday, May 12. It permanently allows beer, wine, and mixed drinks to be included in pickup and delivery food orders. - Texas restaurants will be able to sell beer, wine, and cocktails to-go forever. With a vote of 30-1, the Texas Senate approved HB 1024, which codifies Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s emergency waiver that allowed restaurant to sell beer, wine, and cocktails with pickup and delivery food orders.
Texas alcohol to-go bill awaits governor’s signature to become law
AUSTIN, Texas The Texas Senate has passed a measure to permanently allow Texans to purchase alcohol to go from restaurants, advancing a shared goal of Gov. Greg Abbott and restaurateurs.
House Bill 1024, which cleared the lower chamber last month, would allow beer, wine and mixed drinks to be included in pickup and delivery food orders, securing a revenue stream made available to restaurants in the last year during the pandemic, intended to help those businesses when they closed their dining areas.
The Senate on Wednesday approved the legislation, filed by Republican state Rep. Charlie Geren, a restaurant owner in Fort Worth, in a 30-1 vote. The measure now heads to Abbott’s desk.
Posted By Nina Rangel on Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 12:32 PM click to enlarge Instagram / idaclairesa San Antonio s Ida Claire offers up frosé pouches with to-go brunch packages. Texans are one step closer to being able to enjoying professionally prepared cocktails in their own homes whether or not there s a pandemic going on. The Texas Legislature on Wednesday passed House Bill 1024, a measure that would make permanent Abbott s cocktails to-go order, adopted early in the pandemic to help the restaurant industry make up flagging revenues.
The proposal, which would allow beer, wine and mixed drinks to be included in pickup and delivery food orders, now only needs the governor s signature to become law.
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The Texas Senate passed a measure Wednesday to permanently allow Texans to purchase alcohol to go from restaurants, advancing a shared goal of Gov. Greg Abbott and restaurateurs.
House Bill 1024, which cleared the lower chamber last month, would allow beer, wine and mixed drinks to be included in pickup and delivery food orders, securing a revenue stream made available to restaurants in the last year during the pandemic, intended to help those businesses when they closed their dining areas.