The Indiana House voted 90-4 to approve and send to the state Senate a bill changing a number of state liquor laws, including a requirement that a liquor store owner must have been a resident for five years.
The five-year requirement was adopted in 2015 to prevent Binny’s Beverage Depot from acquiring several stores in Northwest Indiana. The residency period it required was more than twice that of Tennessee, which saw its two-year residency requirement struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019.