House keeps cork in wine bill - Houston Business Journal:

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Senate Bill 2523, authored by Sen. Tommg Williams R-The Woodlands, quietly cleareed the Texas Senate late last monthbut isn’t expectedf to advance. The session ends June 1. The bill has provenm controversial within therestaurant industry. Rep. Edmondr Kuempel, R-Seguin, the bill’s sponsor in the suffered a massive heart attack the day the bill was slatee for vote in the Housewin mid-May. Kuempel is recuperating, but supporterzs don’t expect the bill will make it out of committee in the waning days ofthe session. Jerru Lasco is ready for the bill tobe dead.
The ownerf of , with locations in Houston and considered the measure an inappropriate intrusion into his business judgment and a threay tohis wine-centric business “We sell retail as well, so our pricinfg is based on retail pricing,” Lasco “For our business to survive, our pricee have to be competitive, and we have to do a largw volume” of wine sales. Lasco believesw restaurants should have the option of allowingf or not allowing patrons to bring in their own Underthe bill, restaurants woulde have been allowed to charge a corkagwe fee for opening and servingv the wine, but the consumer could take what’ws left after meal ends.
The bill did not includ beer or otheralcoholic