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Tennessee House Votes To Allow Liquor And Wine Sales On Sunday

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The Tennessee House has approved a measure that would let consumers buy a bottle of wine or liquor on Sundays.

Lawmakers voted 55-35 Monday night to lift restrictions that bar grocery stores in Tennessee from selling wine on Sundays and liquor stores from being open. Under the House proposal, sales would still be restricted on Easter, Christmas and Thanksgiving.

The measure still needs to be approved by the Senate and the governor. If they do, liquor stores could begin opening on Sundays immediately, but grocery stores would have to wait until January 2019.

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Chas Sisk, Senior Editor

Chas joined WPLN in 2015 and became an editor in 2018. Previously, he covered state politics for Nashville Public Radio and The Tennessean, and he’s also reported on communities, politics and business for a variety of publications in Massachusetts, New York and Washington, D.C. Chas grew up in South Carolina and attended Columbia University, where he studied economics and journalism.

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