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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 3065

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representative Honeyford)

Read first time 02/07/98.  Referred to Committee on .

Reimbursing state liquor stores and agency liquor vendors for costs of credit and debit sales of liquor.

    AN ACT Relating to credit and debit card purchases in state liquor stores and agency liquor vendor stores; and amending RCW 66.08.026.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 66.08.026 and 1997 c 148 s 1 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, transaction fees associated with credit or debit card purchases for liquor in state liquor stores and in the stores of agency liquor vendors pursuant to RCW 66.16.040 and 66.16.041, 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.

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