No contribution shall be made and no expenditure shall be incurred, directly or indirectly, in a fictitious name, anonymously, or by one person through an agent, relative, or other person in such a manner as to conceal the identity of the source of the contribution or in any other manner so as to effect concealment.
RCW 42.17A.435
Identification of contributions and communications. (Effective until January 1, 2026. Recodified as RCW 29B.40.100.)
Known as the Fair Campaign Practices Act
The act spans §§ 42.17A.001 to 42.17A.920 (113 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case State v. Grocery Mfrs. Ass'n (2022)
Most recently applied in State v. Grocery Mfrs. Ass'n (January 2022)
1975 1st ex.s. c 294 s 8; 1973 c 1 s 12 (Initiative Measure No. 276, approved November 7, 1972)
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.