2341 AMS WM S5589.1

2341 AMS WM S5589.1

HB 2341 - S COMM AMD

By Committee on Ways & Means

Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:

"Sec. 1. RCW 66.16.040 and 1995 c 16 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

Except as otherwise provided by law, an employee in a state liquor store or agency may sell liquor to any person of legal age to purchase alcoholic beverages and may also sell to holders of permits such liquor as may be purchased under such permits.

Where there may be a question of a person's right to purchase liquor by reason of age, such person shall be required to present any one of the following officially issued cards of identification which shows his/her correct age and bears his/her signature and photograph:

(1) Liquor control authority card of identification of any state or province of Canada.

(2) Driver's license, instruction permit or identification card of any state or province of Canada, or "identicard" issued by the Washington state department of licensing pursuant to RCW 46.20.117.

(3) United States armed forces identification card issued to active duty, reserve, and retired personnel and the personnel's dependents.

(4) Passport.

(5) Merchant Marine identification card issued by the United States Coast Guard.

The board may adopt such regulations as it deems proper covering the acceptance of such cards of identification.

No liquor sold under this section shall be delivered until the purchaser has paid for the liquor in cash, except as allowed under section 2 of this act. The use of a personal credit card does not rely upon the credit of the state as prohibited by Article VIII, section 5 of the state Constitution.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. (1) The state liquor control board shall allow credit card purchases in a pilot project to study and test the use of credit cards in state liquor stores. In order to conduct the pilot project, the board shall, by rule:

(a) Establish the criteria for selecting store test sites;

(b) Limit the pilot project to eighteen months in duration;

(d) Include the use of debit cards; and

(e) Allow only nonlicensees to make credit card purchases.

(2) The board shall provide a report of the results to the legislature by January 1, 1998.

Sec. 3. RCW 66.08.026 and 1983 c 160 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

All administrative expenses of the board incurred on and after April 1, 1963 shall be appropriated and paid from the liquor revolving fund. These administrative expenses shall include, but not be limited to: The salaries and expenses of the board and its employees, the cost of establishing, leasing, maintaining, and operating state liquor stores and warehouses, legal services, pilot projects, annual or other audits, and other general costs of conducting the business of the board. The administrative expenses shall not, however, be deemed to include costs of liquor and lottery tickets purchased, the cost of transportation and delivery to the point of distribution, other costs pertaining to the acquisition and receipt of liquor and lottery tickets, packaging and repackaging of liquor, sales tax, and those amounts distributed pursuant to RCW 66.08.180, 66.08.190, 66.08.200, 66.08.210 and 66.08.220."

HB 2341 - S COMM AMD

By Committee on Ways & Means

On page 1, line 2 of the title, after "stores;" strike the remainder of the title and insert "amending RCW 66.16.040 and 66.08.026; and creating a new section."