The agency is about to propose rules that will make these important guidelines much easier to understand. The proposed rules combine these requirements into one chapter, and represent a 52 percent word reduction. Streamlining the requirements for liquor license applicants , in order to reduce duplication and have a more user-friendly application process. Currently the guidelines for the application process are found throughout various chapters of WAC and in policy manuals. Revising rules to allow for electronic funds transfer as a method of payment between a distributor and a retailer.
State law prohibits beer and wine suppliers from extending credit to retailers.
The Board has proposed rules that allow retailers to pay for beer and wine via electronic funds transfer as an additional option to paying by check or cash. The agency has completed its review of the policies and interpretive statements that fall under the definition of WAC per the Administrative Procedure Act. As a result, we are either converting these policies into WAC or eliminating them. The majority of policies that directly affect the public are found in the agency s Licensing and Regulation Division and our Education and Enforcement Division manuals. Both divisions are in the process of reducing and simplifying the remaining policies and procedures.