BILL REQ. #:  S-3480.1 

Read first time 01/14/10.   Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce & Consumer Protection.

     AN ACT Relating to exempting pipe tobacco from restrictions on shipping tobacco to consumers in Washington; and amending RCW 70.155.010.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 70.155.010 and 2009 c 278 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     The definitions set forth in RCW 82.24.010 shall apply to this chapter. In addition, for the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise required by the context:
     (1) "Board" means the Washington state liquor control board.
     (2) "Internet" means any computer network, telephonic network, or other electronic network.
     (3) "Minor" refers to an individual who is less than eighteen years old.
     (4) "Pipe tobacco" means only that tobacco which, because of its appearance, type, packaging, and labeling, is intended and suitable for use and offered to, or purchased by, consumers as tobacco to be smoked in a pipe.
     (5) "Sample" means a tobacco product distributed to members of the general public at no cost or at nominal cost for product promotion purposes.
     (((5))) (6) "Sampling" means the distribution of samples to members of the public.
     (((6))) (7) "Tobacco product" means a product that contains tobacco and is intended for human use, including any product defined in RCW 82.24.010(2) or 82.26.010(1), except that for the purposes of RCW 70.155.140 only, "tobacco product" does not include: (a) Cigars defined in RCW 82.26.010 as to which one thousand units weigh more than three pounds; or (b) pipe tobacco.