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                                  HOUSE BILL 2878

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State of Washington              54th Legislature             1996 Regular Session

By Representatives Backlund and Cody

Read first time 01/23/96.  Referred to Committee on Health Care.

Requiring HIV testing of gamete donors.

     AN ACT Relating to the required testing of gamete donors; and adding a new section to chapter 70.24 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 70.24 RCW to read as follows:

     (1) Any person using donor gametes to treat patients for infertility by artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, gamete intrafallopian tube transfer, or zygote intrafallopian tube transfer, or any other gamete, zygote, or embryo transfer, or other intervening medical technology using sperm or ova shall, prior to using any donor gametes for such procedures, ascertain the HIV status of the donor through testing as provided in department of health rules.

     (2) The department of health shall adopt rules establishing a testing protocol for gamete donors.

     (3) As used in this section:

     (a) "Donor" means an individual, unrelated by marriage to the recipient, who contributes the sperm or ova used in a procedure listed in subsection (1) of this section.

     (b) "Gametes" means either sperm or ova.

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