AUGUSTA (AP) – A bill that would allow Maine car dealers to sell vehicles on Sundays is dead for this session.

The Legislature’s Business, Research and Economic Development Committee sent word to the House on Tuesday that it voted unanimously to kill the bill.

Rep. Nancy Smith, D-Monmouth, a committee co-chair, said dealers didn’t support the idea and consumers expressed a desire to have one day a week to car shop without having salesmen around.

It is now illegal for dealers to sell cars, trucks or motorcycles on Sunday.

The only person to testify in favor of the bill during a hearing Feb. 22 was its sponsor, Rep. Kenneth Lindell, R-Frankfort, who said he wanted to reduce state regulation over business and give families an option to car shop on Sunday.