SC lawmakers want permanent curbside alcohol pickup
The bill makes Gov. McMaster's COVID-19 executive orders permanent
Ten South Carolina state lawmakers are working to make curbside alcohol pickup permanent.
Eight Republican state representatives and two Democratic state representatives are supporting the pre-filed bill, which extends South Carolina Gov. McMaster’s COVID-19 order allowing both customers to pick up curbside alcohol orders and businesses to drop off alcohol into customers' cars.
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"What it effectively does is make permanent the provisions of Gov. McMaster’s executive orders due to the pandemic relating to being able to order groceries and alcohol online and then pull up the grocery store and have that transaction happen at your car as opposed to inside the retailer at the cash register," Republican state Rep. Micah Caskey, who is co-sponsoring the bill, told WBTW News 13.
An employee wearing a face mask rings up a customer's alcohol purchase at the Local Market Foods store in Chicago, April 8, 2020, during the coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
Stores would check IDs during pickup, and restaurants and bars would be excluded from the law, WBTW reported.
Caskey told the outlet that the pandemic has highlighted the ways in which lawmakers can make life a little easier for South Carolina residents. Bill H. 3575 would make alcohol purchases for busy adults on the go who may have children in tow while picking up groceries.
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"During the pandemic, a lot of terrible things have happened, and my heart breaks for that. I think it’s important to learn the lessons of the pandemic, and realize, here’s the thing that we were doing that could be better,” Caskey said, according to WBTW.
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She continued: "What we are trying to do is to take those positive lessons and integrate that into how we live life ordinarily going forward."