CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SECOND SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2782

Chapter 114, Laws of 1998

(partial veto)

55th Legislature

1998 Regular Session

SPECIAL EVENT ENDORSEMENTS TO FULL SERVICE PRIVATE CLUB LICENSES

EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/1/98

Passed by the House March 7, 1998

Yeas 96 Nays 2

CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate March 4, 1998

Yeas 40 Nays 3

CERTIFICATE

I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SECOND SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2782 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

Chief Clerk

Approved March 23, 1998, with the exception of section 2, which is vetoed.

FILED

March 23, 1998 - 4:28 p.m.

GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State

State of Washington

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SECOND SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2782

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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 Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives McMorris and Wood)

Read first time 02/07/98. Referred to Committee on .

AN ACT Relating to special event endorsements to full service private club licenses; amending RCW 66.24.450; creating a new section; and providing an effective date.

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

Sec. 1. RCW 66.24.450 and 1997 c 321 s 30 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) No club shall be entitled to a full service private club license:

(a) Unless such private club has been in continuous operation for at least one year immediately prior to the date of its application for such license;

(b) Unless the private club premises be constructed and equipped, conducted, managed, and operated to the satisfaction of the board and in accordance with this title and the regulations made thereunder;

(c) Unless the board shall have determined pursuant to any regulations made by it with respect to private clubs, that such private club is a bona fide private club; it being the intent of this section that license shall not be granted to a club which is, or has been, primarily formed or activated to obtain a license to sell liquor, but solely to a bona fide private club, where the sale of liquor is incidental to the main purposes of the private club, as defined in RCW 66.04.010(7).

(2) The annual fee for a full service private club license, whether inside or outside of an incorporated city or town, is seven hundred twenty dollars per year.

(3) The board may issue an endorsement to the full service private club license that allows up to forty nonclub, member-sponsored events using club liquor. Visitors and guests may attend these events only by invitation of the sponsoring member or members. These events may not be open to the general public. The fee for the endorsement shall be an annual fee of nine hundred dollars. Upon the board's request, the holder of the endorsement must provide the board or the board's designee with the following information at least seventy-two hours prior to the event: The date, time, and location of the event; the name of the sponsor of the event; and a brief description of the purpose of the event.

*NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. The board shall report to the senate and house of representatives by January 1, 2001, on whether it has found in the ordinary course of its business since the effective date of this act that compliance by private clubs with restrictions on service of nonmembers has improved as a result of the changes in RCW 66.24.450 by section 1 of this act, and whether any amendments are needed to enhance compliance.

*Sec. 2 was vetoed. See message at end of chapter.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. This act takes effect July 1, 1998.

Note: Governor's explanation of partial veto is as follows:

"I am returning herewith, without my approval as to section 2, Second Substitute House Bill No. 2782 entitled:

"AN ACT Relating to special event endorsements to full service private club licenses;"

Section 1 of Second Substitute House Bill No. 2782 will allow non-profit private clubs to pay for a license endorsement that allows them to serve alcohol at up to forty events per year where non-members are invited. Section 2 of the bill would require the Liquor Control Board to report to the legislature on whether the change in section 1 of 2SHB 2782 has improved compliance with the law, and whether more amendments are needed to enhance compliance.

Information on violations of liquor laws is maintained by the Liquor Control Board as part of its regular business operations, and that information is available to anyone. Therefore, the reporting requirement of section 2 is not necessary.

For this reason, I have vetoed section 2 of Second Substitute House Bill No. 2782.

With the exception of section 2, I am approving Second Substitute House Bill No. 2782."