Delegate Marlon Amprey first introduced legislation to bring wine and beer to grocery stores in the 2024 session.
Although the legislation did not make it through to become law, Amprey says he is optimistic this year will be different.
He isn’t the only one who is optimistic about it.
“Oh I’m so excited about it I hope everything works out because it would be wonderful to go in the market and be able to get beer and wine,” says Gladys Wilder.
Gladys wilder says it would be helpful to have more places to get those beverages instead of having to go from place to place while shopping.
“Well be happy if we can just get everything out of the store at once where we won’t have to just go to the market and then go somewhere else and plus it will be much safer like that you go to one place and then you will be able to go home,” she says.
I met up with delegate Amprey to learn more about the bill and why he is proposing it.
“The goal of any bill of mine is always going to be equity so I wanted to think through how can we provide some equity with adding beer and wine in grocery stores,” says Delegate Amprey.