A local convenience store owner says his business is specifically being targeted by a new law close to being passed at the Statehouse.

INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) - The owner of an Indiana-based convenience store chain says lawmakers "targeted" his company in a recent liquor sales ruling.

The state government motto is Indiana is a "State that Works," but it's not working for Jay Ricker.

He installed seating in two of his Ricker's convenience stores and served food, which gave him the right to sell cold beer. Well, the liquor lobby didn't like that and so lawmakers wrote a new bill that will force Ricker's to stop selling cold beer by April 2018.

Jay Ricker says that he was shocked lawmakers are targeting his business.

"I was shocked. It looks like it targeted us specifically. The cut-off dates they put in there happen to be the months that I got my license, so we are not grandfathered, so they will be able to yank our licenses. I have talked to so many people who don't even know me and they say, 'Are we ever going to fix our antiquated, Prohibition-era regulations on alcohol?' We look laughable. People who move here from other states say, 'I can't buy on Sunday and I can't buy it cold'," Jay Ricker said during a one-on-one interview at the Statehouse shortly after Eyewitness News obtained a copy of the conference committee report.

The catch is there are a few other businesses that have a similar deal in other cities that are grandfathered into this deal, which is why Ricker's feels targeted.