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.