Senator withdraws bill allowing strip clubs to sell drinks

WMCTV.COM
April 27, 2007

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Legislation to allow strip clubs in Tennessee sell liquor by the drink and require licensing of exotic dancers appears to be dead.

Some local officials said such a measure would interfere with local government efforts to regulate the industry.

Senator Paul Stanley of Memphis said he sponsored the bill because he thought it would allow local law enforcement and district attorneys to exercise more control rather than less over the strip club industry.

He agreed to withdraw the legislation after talking with Shelby County District Attorney General Bill Gibbons about the prosecutor's concerns with the bill.