HB 1698: Updating liquor permit and licensing provisions.
Signed into law: Chapter 167, Laws of 2025
- Sponsor
- Waters
- Introduced
- January 29, 2025
- Status
- C 167 L 25
- Last action
- Effective date 7/27/2025. (April 25, 2025)
- As of
- October 16, 2026, 5:15 AM Pacific, from the Legislature’s records
What this bill does
Makes changes to definitions under the alcohol server permit statutes clarifying that all persons selling and serving alcohol for on-premise consumption at a license facility need to obtain an alcohol server permit. Eliminates a special liquor permit and the public house liquor license.
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Floor votes
- House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 4, 202595 yea · 0 nay · 3 not voting
- Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · April 16, 202548 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting
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