Draft laws on alcohol sales in the Chamber of Deputies

Following a recent constitutional ruling in the Dominican Republic, lawmakers in the Chamber of Deputies have introduced two legislative bills aimed at regulating the sale of alcoholic beverages. The development comes less than a month after the Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional a previous executive decree that had established restrictions on the commercialization of alcohol.

The newly submitted bills seek to establish formal, legislated rules for the retail and distribution of alcoholic drinks to fill the regulatory gap left by the court's invalidation of the earlier decree. This legislative push shifts the mechanism of alcohol regulation from executive action to statutory law within the lower house of Congress.