HOUSE BILL REPORT

                  HB 1084

             As Reported By House Committee on:

                      Commerce & Labor

Title:  An act relating to minors on licensed premises.

Brief Description:  Modifying provisions relating to minors on liquor establishments.

Sponsor(s):  Representatives Franklin, Vance, R. King, Ferguson, Jacobsen, Edmondson, May, Wynne, Chandler, Wood, Mitchell and Tate; by request of Liquor Control Board.

Brief History:

  Reported by House Committee on:

Commerce & Labor, February 12, 1991, DP.

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON

COMMERCE & LABOR

Majority Report: Do pass.  Signed by 10 members:  Representatives Heavey, Chair; Cole, Vice Chair; Fuhrman, Ranking Minority Member; Lisk, Assistant Ranking Minority Member; Franklin; Jones; R. King; O'Brien; Prentice; and Vance.

Staff:  Jim Kelley (786-7166).

Background:  Many liquor license premises that are licensed as restaurants serving beer and wine have portions or rooms set aside for the preparation, dispensing and consumption of liquor.  The board has no statutory authority to prohibit persons under 21 from frequenting such premises.

Summary of Bill:  The board is authorized to classify certain portions of licensed premises as taprooms or cabarets and, therefore, make them off-limits to minors.

Fiscal Note:  Requested January 21, 1991.

Effective Date:  Ninety days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed.

Testimony For:  The Liquor Control Board's authority to regulate taprooms and cabarets is unclear.  This bill would clarify that authority.

Testimony Against:  None.

Witnesses:  Carter Mitchell, Liquor Control Board.