Large, small stores at odds over Sunday alcohol sales

It’s been more than a century since gunfighters settled their differences with six-shooters on the dusty main drags of rough-and-tumble frontier towns.

For the Texas liquor industry, though, it might as well still be the Wild West.

The Texas Package Store Association — strange as it may seem — is taking aim at legislation that would amend the state’s Alcoholic Beverage Code to allow liquor package stores to be open on Sundays from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. — essentially gutting Texas’ longstanding “blue law” regulating Sunday alcohol sales.

Senate Bill 236, filed by Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, D-McAllen, and House Bill 421, filed by Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston, also would allow package stores to open an hour earlier and close an hour later the other days of the week.

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