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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1375
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993 Regular Session
By House Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Representatives Brough, Appelwick, Padden, Heavey, Ballard, Ludwig, Vance, Forner, Wineberry, Jones, Roland, Horn, Casada, Sheahan, Long, Foreman, Rayburn, Brumsickle, Van Luven, Springer, Wood, Johanson, Miller, Schoesler, Reams and Silver)
Read first time 02/19/93.
AN ACT Relating to liability for furnishing liquor to minors; adding a new section to chapter 4.24 RCW; and prescribing penalties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 4.24 RCW to read as follows:
(1) An adult who furnishes intoxicating liquor to a minor is liable for economic damages to persons or property caused by the minor's consumption. This section applies to furnishing alcohol under any circumstances whether commercially, socially, or otherwise.
(2) As used in this section:
(a) "Minor" means a person under the age of twenty-one years.
(b) "Adult" means a person over the age of seventeen years.
(c) "Economic damages" means objectively verifiable monetary losses, including medical expenses, loss of earnings, burial costs, loss of use of property, cost of replacement or repair, cost of obtaining substitute domestic services, loss of employment, and loss of business or employment opportunities.
(3) This section is in addition to and does not abridge or alter alternative rights of action that may be available under statutes, ordinances, regulations, or at common law.
(4) No person who has complied with the provisions of RCW 66.20.210 is liable under this section.
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