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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2356
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1992 Regular Session
By House Committee on Revenue (originally sponsored by Representatives Heavey, Moyer, Franklin, Dorn, Sheldon, Leonard and Sprenkle)
Read first time 02/11/92.
AN ACT Relating to funding alcohol awareness programming; and creating new sections.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The Washington state liquor control board is charged with the responsibility of controlling the manufacture, distribution, sale, and consumption of alcoholic beverages. As part of that responsibility, the board shall conduct an aggressive public awareness campaign directed toward youth under the legal drinking age of twenty-one years to discourage consumption of alcoholic beverages.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. The liquor control board shall appoint an advisory committee to provide guidance to the board in developing an alcohol awareness program directed toward youth under the legal drinking age of twenty-one years. The board shall seek to establish a balanced advisory committee with membership selected from representatives of manufacturers, distributors, retailers, advertisers, and consumers of alcoholic products; recognized alcohol awareness, treatment, and prevention groups; social service organizations providing youth services; public health officials; law enforcement officials; traffic safety education officials; medical professionals involved in research or treatment of alcohol related diseases or social problems. At least two members of the advisory group shall be persons less than twenty-one years old. The advisory group created under this section shall be considered a class one group under RCW 43.03.220.