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Ten state legislators in South Carolina are working to make sidewalk alcohol collection permanent.
Eight Republican state representatives and two Democratic state representatives are supporting the pre-filed bill, which extends South Carolina Governor McMaster’s COVID-19 order, allowing both customers to take orders for alcohol on the sidewalk and companies to deliver alcohol in customers’ cars.
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“What he actually does is make the provisions of Governor McMaster’s executive orders permanent due to the pandemic related to the ability to order groceries and alcoholic beverages online and then pull the grocery store and make the transaction happen in his car instead of inside. of the retailer at the cash register, “Republican state deputy Micah Caskey, who is co-sponsoring the bill, told WBTW News 13.
An employee wearing a face mask records a customer’s purchase of alcohol at the Local Market Foods store in Chicago on April 8, 2020, during the coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP via Getty Images)
Stores would verify identifications during collection and restaurants and bars would be excluded from the law, WBTW reported.
Caskey told the vehicle that the pandemic highlighted ways lawmakers can make life a little easier for South Carolina residents. Bill H. 3575 would make alcohol purchases for busy adults in transit who can have children in tow while picking up groceries.
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“During the pandemic, a lot of terrible things happened and my heart breaks for it. I think it is important to learn the lessons of the pandemic and realize, here’s what we were doing that could be better,” said Caskey, according to WBTW.
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She continued, “What we are trying to do is take these positive lessons and integrate them into the way we live life normally going forward.”