WSR 13-23-105
PROPOSED RULES
LIQUOR CONTROL BOARD
[Filed November 20, 2013, 10:26 a.m.]
Original Notice.
Preproposal statement of inquiry was filed as WSR 13-13-025.
Title of Rule and Other Identifying Information: New section WAC 314-38-060 Special permit for technical or community colleges as authorized by RCW 66.20.010(12) shall be called a class 15 permit.
Hearing Location(s): Washington State Liquor Control Board, Board Room, 3000 Pacific Avenue S.E., Olympia, WA 98504, on January 8, 2014, at 10:00 a.m.
Date of Intended Adoption: January 15, 2014.
Submit Written Comments to: Karen McCall, P.O. Box 43080, Olympia, WA 98504, e-mail rules@liq.wa.gov, fax (360) 664-9689, by January 8, 2014.
Assistance for Persons with Disabilities: Contact Karen McCall by January 8, 2014, (360) 664-1631.
Purpose of the Proposal and Its Anticipated Effects, Including Any Changes in Existing Rules: SSB 5774 passed in the 2013 legislative session. Rules are needed to clarify the new law for community and technical colleges that wish to allow their students to taste alcoholic beverages as part of the culinary, beer technology, wine technology, or spirituous technology related degree program.
Reasons Supporting Proposal: Rules are needed to clarify the law and what requirements licensees must meet to obtain and maintain this permit.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 66.08.030, 66.20.010.
Statute Being Implemented: RCW 66.20.010.
Rule is not necessitated by federal law, federal or state court decision.
Name of Proponent: Washington state liquor control board, governmental.
Name of Agency Personnel Responsible for Drafting: Karen McCall, Rules Coordinator, 3000 Pacific Avenue S.E., Olympia, WA 98504, (360) 664-1631; Implementation: Alan Rathbun, Licensing Director, 3000 Pacific Avenue S.E., Olympia, WA 98504, (360) 664-1615; and Enforcement: Justin Nordhorn, Enforcement Chief, 3000 Pacific Avenue S.E., Olympia, WA 98504, (360) 664-1726.
No small business economic impact statement has been prepared under chapter 19.85 RCW. A small business economic impact statement was not required.
A cost-benefit analysis is not required under RCW 34.05.328.
November 20, 2013
Sharon Foster
Chairman
NEW SECTION
WAC 314-38-060 Special permit for technical or community colleges as authorized by RCW 66.20.010(12) shall be called a class 15 permit.
(1) The class 15 permit allows tasting of alcohol by persons between eighteen and twenty years old. The requirements for a class 15 permit are as follows:
(a) The permit applicant is a technical or community college;
(b) The permit allows tasting, not consuming of alcohol as part of the class curriculum with approval of the educational provider;
(c) The student must be enrolled in a required or elective class at the college premises as part of a culinary, beer technology, wine technology, or spirituous technology-related degree program;
(d) The alcohol served to any person in the program under twenty-one years of age is tasted but not consumed for the purpose of educational training as part of the class curriculum with the approval of the educational provider;
(e) Faculty or staff of the educational provider must be at least twenty-one years of age, supervise the service and tasting, and hold a class 12 or class 13 alcohol server permit; and
(f) Students may not purchase the alcoholic beverages.
(2) There is no annual fee for this permit.