CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 6366

                    Chapter 33, Laws of 2000

                        56th Legislature

                      2000 Regular Session

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION--FALSE ADVERTISING

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/8/00

Passed by the Senate February 11, 2000   YEAS 46   NAYS 0                BRAD OWEN President of the Senate Passed by the House February 29, 2000   YEAS 97   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE BILL 6366 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the       House of Representatives	TONY M. COOK                             Secretary
FRANK CHOPP Speaker of the       House of Representatives

Approved March 17, 2000 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                      March 17, 2000 - 2:49 p.m.

GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                  State of Washington

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                         SENATE BILL 6366

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             Passed Legislature - 2000 Regular Session

State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

By Senators Brown, Hochstatter, Roach, Spanel, Shin, Prentice, Costa, Kohl‑Welles, McAuliffe, Fraser, Thibaudeau, B. Sheldon, T. Sheldon, Bauer, Eide, Jacobsen, Gardner, Haugen, Patterson, Rasmussen, Winsley and Oke

Read first time 01/14/2000.  Referred to Committee on Energy, Technology & Telecommunications.

Prohibiting false advertising through electronic communication. 

    AN ACT Relating to false advertising through electronic communication; and amending RCW 9.04.050.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 9.04.050 and 1961 c 189 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    It shall be unlawful for any person to publish, disseminate or display, or cause directly or indirectly, to be published, disseminated or displayed in any manner or by any means, including solicitation or dissemination by mail, telephone, electronic communication, or door-to-door contacts, any false, deceptive or misleading advertising, with knowledge of the facts which render the advertising false, deceptive or misleading, for any business, trade or commercial purpose or for the purpose of inducing, or which is likely to induce, directly or indirectly, the public to purchase, consume, lease, dispose of, utilize or sell any property or service, or to enter into any obligation or transaction relating thereto:  PROVIDED, That nothing in this section shall apply to any radio or television broadcasting station which broadcasts, or to any publisher, printer or distributor of any newspaper, magazine, billboard or other advertising medium who publishes, prints or distributes, such advertising in good faith without knowledge of its false, deceptive or misleading character.

    Passed the Senate February 11, 2000.

    Passed the House February 29, 2000.

Approved by the Governor March 17, 2000.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 17, 2000.