5017-S AMS FRAN S1869.2

SSB 5017 - S AMD 014

By Senators Franklin and Kline

    On page 10, beginning on line 5, strike all of section 14, and insert the following:

    "NEW SECTION. Sec. 14.  A new section is added to chapter 69.43 RCW to read as follows:

    (1) To prevent violations of section 9 of this act, every licensee and registrant under chapter 18.64 RCW, who sells at retail any products containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine, or their salts, isomers, or salts of isomers, shall do either or may do both of the following:

    (a) Program scanners, cash registers, or other electronic devices used to record sales in a manner that will alert persons handling transactions to potential violations of section 9(1) of this act and/or prevent such violations; or

    (b) Place one or more signs on the premises to notify customers of the prohibitions of section 9 of this act.  Any such sign may, but is not required to, conform to the language and format prepared by the department of health under subsection (2) of this section.

    (2) The department of health shall prepare language and format for a sign summarizing the prohibitions in sections 9 and 10 of this act and make the language and format available to licensees and registrants under chapter 18.64 RCW, for voluntary use in their places of business to inform customers and employees of the prohibitions.  Nothing in this section requires the department of health to provide licensees or registrants with copies of signs, or any licensee or registrant to use the specific language or format prepared by the department under this subsection."

EFFECT:  Allows retailers to take either of two measures to prevent sale and purchase of prohibited quantities of ephedrine products:  (a) Program scanning and related equipment to prevent such purchases; or (b) post one or more signs on the premises to alert customers and employees to the prohibitions.

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