BILL REQ. #:  S-4274.1 

READ FIRST TIME 02/02/04.   

     AN ACT Relating to acceptable forms of identification for liquor sales; and amending RCW 66.16.040.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 66.16.040 and 1996 c 291 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, which may include an imbedded, digital signature in lieu of a visible signature.
     (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 listed in this section.
     No liquor sold under this section shall be delivered until the purchaser has paid for the liquor in cash, except as allowed under RCW 66.16.041. 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.