Assembly panel cuts wedding barn regulations from DNC bar hours bill
The Assembly State Affairs Committee has amended a bill that would expand bar hours for the Democratic National Convention, removing provisions that would’ve established a permit process for wedding barns. The amendment also pulled from the bill a section changing the hours that wineries can operate. The bill’s author, Rep. Rob Swearingen, R-Rhinelander, said he decided to pull the winery provision after testimony at Wednesday’s public hearing that he called “borderline insulting and a waste of the committee’s time.” While looking at that provision, he decided to pull the wedding barn language, too. “I realize the private event issue was