This bill creates a new cannabis consumption event organizer license and adds related permitting, licensing, and regulatory authority to chapter 69.50 RCW and many other sections. Licensed organizers (persons or entities that need not hold an existing cannabis producer/processor/retailer license) may host approved temporary on-site consumption events where adults 21 and older may purchase and consume board‑approved single‑use and ready‑to‑consume cannabis products on approved premises. Events are limited to one per calendar month and up to three consecutive days (the Liquor and Cannabis Board may raise those limits by rule two years after the section’s effective date). Organizers must obtain a temporary on‑site consumption event permit for each event, meet security, age‑verification, storage, and reporting requirements, and may obtain product from licensed producers/processors; possession/sale/distribution at approved events by licensees acting under the chapter and board rules is not a criminal or civil offense under state law. The act creates procedural and licensing changes including a required budtender permit and training for employees who sell or prepare products at consumption events, CHRI/fingerprint checks for applicants, and expanded board rulemaking authority on product standards, packaging and labeling, advertising, advertising penalties, workplace safety, employee training, and permitted methods of consumption in consumption areas. It amends existing licensing schemes (producers, processors, retailers) to add limits on ownership, forfeiture procedures for retailers that do not open within specified periods, production and outlet capacity review, and new social equity licensing and fee waivers; it also requires organizers to collect and remit the cannabis excise tax. The bill changes penalties and creates statutory prohibitions and enforcement procedures: public consumption remains unlawful except as authorized at approved consumption events (specified as a class 3 civil infraction in the amended statute), maintaining a cannabis club is retained as a class C felony except for authorized consumption events, selling to persons under 21 by a retail or event employee is a gross misdemeanor (with additional prosecution options for knowing sales), and the board may impose fines for advertising and signage violations (initially $1,000 per violation pending rulemaking and escalating penalties thereafter). Fee and revenue allocations are specified: collected application and permit fees and excise tax revenues are allocated among the dedicated cannabis account, community reinvestment account, a youth cannabis cessation account created by the act, and a youth tobacco and vapor prevention account. The bill also addresses tribal‑state cannabis agreements, requiring such agreements to provide for tribal cannabis taxation parity and to address public health, security, and cross‑border commerce, and delegates negotiation authority to the Liquor and Cannabis Board where the governor so directs. Important provisions are not fully present in the extracted text: the complete text of section 2 (the detailed contents and exceptions for temporary on‑site consumption permits and consumption area standards), section 3 (full budtender permit mechanics), some employee training requirements, certain defined terms, board‑established maximum quantities for on‑premises possession and sale, and the final rulemaking and enforcement specifics are incomplete or missing from the provided excerpts.

If enacted, the bill creates a new business model: a licensed cannabis consumption event organizer can run approved, temporary events where adults 21+ buy and use single‑use and ready‑to‑consume cannabis products on site. Organizers will face new upfront and ongoing costs (a $500 application fee, $200 annual renewal, per‑event permit fees up to $500 unless waived for social equity licensees through 2032), and must provide security, age verification, DUI‑deterrence plans, employee budtender training and permits, locked storage and PPE, collect and remit the 37% cannabis excise tax, and follow strict advertising, labeling, and venue rules under board oversight; failure to comply can trigger fines and license suspension or forfeiture. Licensed producers, processors, and retailers gain another sales channel by participating in events but remain constrained by financial interest rules and must meet on‑site responsibilities; the Liquor and Cannabis Board will need to expand licensing, inspection, rulemaking, and enforcement capacity to implement these new requirements. Some important implementation details are left to agency rules or other sections not included here, so exact limits and procedures are uncertain: the board must still set many specifics (maximum per‑customer quantities, container and ventilation standards, detailed budtender program elements, and precise permit fees), and section references that define certain permits and training (for example, the full budtender permit requirements) are not present in the extracted material.