{"id":332061,"date":"2015-03-15T16:27:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T21:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=332061"},"modified":"2015-03-17T02:45:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T07:45:07","slug":"legislation-proposes-to-modify-sunday-blue-laws-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=332061","title":{"rendered":"Legislation Proposes to Modify Sunday Blue Laws in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/03\/Kevin-Eltife.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/03\/Kevin-Eltife-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Eltife\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-332062\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN &#8212; A couple of state lawmakers believe a Texas blue law regarding liquor needs to be tossed out the window. Republican Senator Kevin Eltife of Tyler has introduced a bill that would allow people to continue to shop in liquor stores past the current closing time of 9:00pm. He believes the measure would give shoppers reasonable time to finish their purchases, especially on Saturday nights. A Dallas Democratic representative has introduced a bill that lets Texans begin shopping for booze earlier on Saturday so they can buy what they need to cover them through Sunday. Liquor stores could open at 9:00am instead of 10:00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN &#8212; A couple of state lawmakers believe a Texas blue law regarding liquor needs to be tossed out the window. Republican Senator Kevin Eltife of Tyler has introduced a bill that would allow people to continue to shop in liquor stores past the current closing time of 9:00pm. He believes the measure would give &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=332061\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Legislation Proposes to Modify Sunday Blue Laws in Texas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 13:34:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332063,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332061\/revisions\/332063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}