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(PA) Liquor privatization: Vote could come tomorrow
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Mar 20, 2013 05:00pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Angela Couloumbis |
| Media | Newspaper - Philadelphia Inquirer |
| News Date | Wednesday, March 20, 2013 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "HARRISBURG - The House of Representatives debated for less than two hours today on a bill to privatize wine and hard liquor sales in Pennsylvania - setting the stage for a historic vote tomorrow.
House members could vote as early as Thursday morning on a plan backed by Republican Gov. Corbett to turn over the state's 600-plus stores to the private sector. Utah is the only other state with government-run wholesale and retail liquor operations.
It was not clear whether Republicans in the GOP-controlled House have enough votes to pass the bill. But if the proposal does pass muster, it would be the farthest a liquor-privatization bill has moved through the legislature since the end of Prohibition in 1933.
The bill the House is considering now is different from Corbett's original privatization proposal, which called for an aggressive auctioning of State Stores to the private sector, including supermarkets, convenience stores, and big-box stores.
The bill before the House would slow down the transition to the private sector and limit what certain private retailers could sell." |
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