Brief Description: Marketing, offering, or selling camping resort contracts.

Sponsors: Senate Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research & Development (originally sponsored by Senators Regala, Swecker, Hargrove, Brandland, Doumit and Shin).

Senate Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research & Development
House Committee on Commerce & Labor

Background: With a few exceptions, to offer or sell a camping resort contract in this state, the contract must be registered with the Department of Licensing (DOL). This requirement has been interpreted as allowing out-of-state persons or businesses to forgo registering their camping resort contracts, resulting in those contracts being sold at lower prices. Furthermore, the current statute does not require the resale of more than one camp resort contract to be registered.

Summary: A camping resort contract can only be marketed, offered, or sold in this state, or to a resident of this state, if the contract is first registered with the DOL.

The sale of resale camp resort contracts requires that the contract be registered with the DOL. However, the sale of up to three resale private party camping resort contracts are not required to be registered.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate      47   0
House      94   0

Effective: July 24, 2005