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                         SENATE BILL 6611

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

By Senators Fairley and Oke

Read first time 01/20/2000.  Referred to Committee on Environmental Quality & Water Resources.

Regulating the sale of certain antifreeze products.

    AN ACT Relating to the sale of antifreeze; adding new sections to chapter 70.54 RCW; creating a new section; and prescribing penalties.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  The legislature finds that antifreeze containing ethylene glycol poses a threat to the health and well-being of children and animals.  According to the American association of poison control centers, about three thousand four hundred poisonings related to ethylene glycol occur each year with about twenty percent of these involving children under age six.  The legislature further finds that a phased-in ban on the use of ethylene glycol in antifreeze will improve the general welfare of children and animals in the state.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 70.54 RCW to read as follows:

    (1) After January 1, 2001, an antifreeze product sold in this state may not contain more than sixty-seven percent ethylene glycol.

    (2) After January 1, 2003, an antifreeze product sold in this state may not contain more than thirty-three percent ethylene glycol.

    (3) After January 1, 2004, an antifreeze product sold in this state may not contain ethylene glycol.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  A new section is added to chapter 70.54 RCW to read as follows:

    (1) The secretary of health is authorized to forbid the sale, and order the removal from retail space, of any product the secretary believes to be in violation of section 1 of this act.

    (2) The secretary of health is authorized to adopt rules concerning the sale of antifreeze products under this section and section 1 of this act.

    (3) A violation of this section or section 1 of this act, or the rules adopted under this section or section 1 of this act, is a misdemeanor.

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