date:Jan 18, 2013
tores to be open from noon to 10 p.m. on Sundays, but the stores would continue to remain closed on the holidays.
More than 35,000 restaurants and bars in Texas sell alcohol every Sunday. The ban on Sunday alcohol sales, dating back to before Prohibition, exists only for the state's 2,460 liquor stores.
Since 2002, 14 states have repealed Sunday liquor bans, including Texas' neighbors, New Mexico, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mexico. Thirty-six states permit Sunday liquor sales.
Texas could poten