CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE
SENATE BILL 5664
Chapter 148, Laws of 1997
55th Legislature
1997 Regular Session
CREDIT AND DEBIT CARD
PURCHASES IN STATE LIQUOR STORES
EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/27/97
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Passed by the Senate March 19,
1997
YEAS 30 NAYS 19
 BOB
MORTON
President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 10, 1997
YEAS 72 NAYS 26
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CERTIFICATE
I, Mike O=Connell, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby
certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5664 as passed by
the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.
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CLYDE BALLARD
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
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 MIKE O'CONNELL
Secretary
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Approved April 22, 1997 Place Style On
Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
April 22, 1997 - 4:47 p.m.
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GARY LOCKE
Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington
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SUBSTITUTE
SENATE BILL 5664
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Passed
Legislature - 1997 Regular Session
State
of Washington 55th Legislature 1997 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 02/27/97.
Allowing credit and debit card purchases in state liquor
stores.
AN
ACT Relating to credit and debit card purchases in state liquor stores; and
amending RCW 66.08.026 and 66.16.041.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
66.08.026 and 1996 c 291 s 3 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
card purchases 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.
Sec.
2. RCW
66.16.041 and 1996 c 291 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
The state liquor control board shall ((allow)) accept bank credit
card and debit cards from nonlicensees for 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;
(c)
Include no more than twenty stores;
(d)
Include the use of debit cards; and
(e)
Allow only nonlicensees to make credit card purchases.)),
under such rules as the board may adopt. The board shall authorize liquor
vendors appointed under RCW 66.08.050 to accept bank credit cards and debit
cards for liquor purchases under this title, under such rules as the board may
adopt.
(2)
The board shall provide a report ((of the results)) evaluating the
implementation of this section to the appropriate committees of the
legislature by January 1, 1998.
Passed the Senate March 19, 1997.
Passed the House April 10, 1997.
Approved by the Governor
April 22, 1997.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State April 22, 1997.