CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 3001

                        55th Legislature

                      1998 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 12, 1998        Yeas 98   Nays 0 Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 11, 1998   Yeas 45   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 3001  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 3001

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                     AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

             Passed Legislature - 1998 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By House Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Representatives Honeyford, Delvin, Lisk and Cole)

Read first time 02/02/98.  Referred to Committee on .

Creating an exemption for wineries furnishing wine to nonprofit charitable organizations. 

    AN ACT Relating to the furnishing of wine by wineries to nonprofit charitable organizations; and amending RCW 66.28.040.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 66.28.040 and 1997 c 39 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    Except as permitted by the board under RCW 66.20.010, no brewer, wholesaler, distiller, winery, importer, rectifier, or other manufacturer of liquor shall, within the state, by himself or herself, a clerk, servant, or agent, give to any person any liquor; but nothing in this section nor in RCW 66.28.010 shall prevent a brewer, wholesaler, winery, distiller, or importer from furnishing samples of beer, wine, or spirituous liquor to authorized licensees for the purpose of negotiating a sale, in accordance with regulations adopted by the liquor control board, provided that the samples are subject to taxes imposed by RCW 66.24.290 and 66.24.210, and in the case of spirituous liquor, any product used for samples must be purchased at retail from the board; nothing in this section shall prevent the furnishing of samples of liquor to the board for the purpose of negotiating the sale of liquor to the state liquor control board; nothing in this section shall prevent a brewery, winery, distillery, or wholesaler from furnishing beer, wine, or spirituous liquor for instructional purposes under RCW 66.28.150 and 66.28.155; nothing in this section shall prevent a winery or wholesaler from furnishing wine without charge, subject to the taxes imposed by RCW 66.24.210, to a not-for-profit group organized and operated solely for the purpose of enology or the study of viticulture which has been in existence for at least six months and ((any)) that uses wine so furnished ((shall be used)) solely for such educational purposes((, provided that the wine furnished shall be subject to the taxes imposed by RCW 66.24.210)) or a domestic winery from furnishing wine without charge or a domestic brewery from furnishing beer without charge, subject to the taxes imposed by RCW 66.24.210 or 66.24.290, to a nonprofit charitable corporation or association exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. Sec. 501(c)(3)) for use consistent with the purpose or purposes entitling it to such exemption; nothing in this section shall prevent a brewer from serving beer without charge, on the brewery premises; nothing in this section shall prevent donations of wine for the purposes of RCW 66.12.180; and nothing in this section shall prevent a domestic winery from serving wine without charge, on the winery premises.

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