2020 Revised Code of Washington
Title 26 - Domestic Relations
Chapter 26.26A - Uniform Parentage Act.
26.26A.815 Information about donor—Declaration regarding identity disclosure to child conceived by assisted reproduction.

RCW 26.26A.815 Information about donor—Declaration regarding identity disclosure to child conceived by assisted reproduction.

(1) A gamete bank or fertility clinic licensed in this state which collects gametes from a donor shall:

(a) Provide the donor with information in a record about the donor's choice regarding identity disclosure; and

(b) Obtain a declaration from the donor regarding identity disclosure.

(2) A gamete bank or fertility clinic licensed in this state shall give a donor the choice to sign a declaration, attested by a notarial officer or witnessed, that either:

(a) States that the donor agrees to disclose the donor's identity to a child conceived by assisted reproduction with the donor's gametes on request once the child attains eighteen years of age; or

(b) States that the donor does not agree presently to disclose the donor's identity to the child.

(3) A gamete bank or fertility clinic licensed in this state shall permit a donor who has signed a declaration under subsection (2)(b) of this section to withdraw the declaration at any time by signing a declaration under subsection (2)(a) of this section.

[ 2018 c 6 § 804.]

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