Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Tri-City Herald: Local-Legislators consider bills to halt 'gift clubs'

Tri-City Herald: Local: "Legislators consider bills to halt 'gift clubs'
This story was published Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
By Chris Mulick, Herald Olympia bureau
OLYMPIA -- The Legislature is seriously considering bills to tighten the state's pyramid scheme laws for the first time since similar proposals were shouted down by boisterous gift club enthusiasts who flooded hearing rooms in 2000.
A bill that seeks to eliminate pathways for skirting violations of the state's Consumer Protection Act moved out of a Senate committee Monday, marking the first such action on the issue in five years. And an identical bill in the House also is likely to move, as resistance apparently has disappeared. "

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