BILL REQ. #:  S-0511.1 

Read first time 01/18/11.   Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce & Consumer Protection.

     AN ACT Relating to penalties for retail liquor licensees; adding a new section to chapter 66.44 RCW; and prescribing penalties.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 66.44 RCW to read as follows:
     A retail liquor licensee is subject to a penalty as follows if the licensee or an employee of the licensee is cited by the board for sale of alcohol to a person under twenty-one years of age:
     (1) For a first offense, the penalty is a written warning;
     (2) For a second offense in a two-year period, the penalty is a written warning and an order that the individual who made the sale attend mandatory alcohol service training;
     (3) For a third, fourth, or fifth offense in a two-year period, the penalty is suspension of the liquor license or a monetary penalty, the length of suspension and amount of the monetary penalty to increase for each offense, as established by the board;
     (4) For a sixth offense in a two-year period, the penalty is cancellation of the liquor license.