An Arkansas lawmaker who wanted to outlaw California wine in retaliation for the West Coast state's egg regulations says he has pulled the bill and that it's effectively dead.
The bill was drafted by Republican Rep. Dan Douglas of Bentonville in protest to a voter-approved California law banning the sale of eggs from chickens kept in cages too small for the animals to turn around. It would prohibit the important of wine from any state that places a "substantial burden" on the Arkansas agriculture industry, as determined by Secretary of the Arkansas Agriculture Department.
Douglas told the Associated Press Monday he wouldn't present the bill before the Senate State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committee because it has already delivered an anti-regulation message to California lawmakers.
