CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5504
Chapter 33, Laws of 2015
64th Legislature
2015 Regular Session
LIQUOR--DISTRIBUTOR EMPLOYEES--STOCKING
EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/24/2015
ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5504
Passed Legislature - 2015 Regular Session
State of Washington
64th Legislature
2015 Regular Session
By Senators Hewitt and Hasegawa
Read first time 01/22/15. Referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.
AN ACT Relating to allowing additional liquor distributor employees to stock liquor under certain circumstances; and amending RCW 66.44.318.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1.  RCW 66.44.318 and 1995 c 100 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) Except as provided in this section, nothing is construed to permit a nonretail class liquor licensee's employee between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one years to handle, transport, or otherwise possess liquor.
(2) Licensees holding nonretail class liquor licenses are permitted to allow their employees between (([the])) the ages of eighteen and twenty-one years to stock, merchandise, and handle ((beer or wine)) liquor on or about the:
(a) Nonretail premises if there is an adult twenty-one years of age or older on duty supervising such activities on the premises; and
(b) Retail licensee's premises, except between 11:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m., as long as there is an adult twenty-one years of age or older, employed by the retail licensee, and present at the retail licensee's premises during the activities described in this subsection (2).
(3) Any act or omission of the nonretail class liquor licensee's employee occurring at or about the retail licensee's premises, which violates any provision of this title, is the sole responsibility of the nonretail class liquor licensee.
(4) Nothing in this section absolves the retail licensee from responsibility for the acts or omissions of its own employees who violate any provision of this title.
Passed by the Senate March 4, 2015.
Passed by the House April 8, 2015.
Approved by the Governor April 17, 2015.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 17, 2015.