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                          HOUSE BILL 1781

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State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

By Representatives H. Sommers, Sehlin, Clements, Conway and Kenney; by request of Liquor Control Board

Read first time 02/05/2001.  Referred to Committee on Appropriations.

Making payment of agency commissions for agency liquor vendor stores.

    AN ACT Relating to payment of agency commissions for 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 1998 c 265 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, and the costs of supplying, installing, and maintaining equipment used in state liquor stores and agency liquor vendor stores for the purchase of liquor by nonlicensees using debit or credit cards.  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, agency commissions for agency liquor vendor stores, 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.  Agency commissions for agency liquor vendor stores shall be established by the liquor control board after consultation with the director of the office of financial management.

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