Title 15
Domestic Relations

Chapter 8.1
Uniform Parentage Act

Article 9
Information About Donor

R.I. Gen. Laws § 15-8.1-905



§ 15-8.1-905.  Disclosure of identifying information and medical history.


(a) On request of a child conceived by assisted reproduction who attains eighteen (18) years of age, a gamete bank or fertility clinic licensed in this state which collected the gametes used in the assisted reproduction shall make a good-faith effort to provide the child with identifying information of the donor who provided the gametes, unless the donor signed and did not withdraw a declaration under § 15-8.1-904(b)(2). If the donor signed and did not withdraw the declaration, the gamete bank or fertility clinic shall make a good-faith effort to notify the donor, who may elect under § 15-8.1-904(c) to withdraw the donor's declaration.

(b) Regardless, whether a donor signed a declaration under § 15-8.1-904(b)(2), on request by a child conceived by assisted reproduction who attains eighteen (18) years of age, or, if the child is a minor, by a parent or guardian of the child, a gamete bank or fertility clinic licensed in this state which collected the gametes used in the assisted reproduction shall make a good-faith effort to provide the child or, if the child is a minor, the parent or guardian of the child, access to nonidentifying medical history of the donor.

(c) On request of a child conceived by assisted reproduction who attains eighteen (18) years of age, a gamete bank or fertility clinic licensed in this state which received the gametes used in the assisted reproduction from another gamete bank or fertility clinic shall disclose the name, address, telephone number, and electronic mail address of the gamete bank or fertility clinic from which it received the gametes.

History of Section.
P.L. 2020, ch. 59, § 2; P.L. 2020, ch. 60, § 2.