The state’s General Fund budget once contained language prohibiting the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board from raising a fee on suppliers like it did last week.

Some lawmakers want to bring that language back in the upcoming legislative session and stop further increases to the bailment fee, paid by liquor suppliers on every case of product distributed by ABC, to help pay for a new warehouse in Montgomery.

“It got omitted from the budget and it needs to go back in there,” Sen. Chris Elliott, R-Josephine, told Alabama Daily News on Wednesday.

Language in the fiscal year 2015 General Fund budget said the bailment fee, relatively new at the time, couldn’t be higher than 72 cents per case.

That language was removed in the 2016 General Fund budget and replaced with verbiage that says

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