3.0.0 2915 2019-11-15T21:58:54Z 2019-11-15T21:58:54Z Senate S S 2008-04-24 110 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-04-24T20:48:35Z 2008-04-24 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2008-04-24 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S000148 Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] Charles Schumer D NY E. N Social Welfare Crime and Law Enforcement Economics and Public Finance Government Operations and Politics Government publicity Grants-in-aid Identity theft Internet Science, Technology, Communications Social security numbers Standards Social Welfare 00 2008-04-24 Introduced in Senate 2008-04-30T19:33:53Z Safeguarding Social Security Numbers Act of 2008 - Directs the Commissioner of Social Security to issue uniform standards for the method for truncation of Social Security account numbers in order to facilitate their protection from use in fraud or identity theft.

Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit the display of Social Security account numbers to the general public on the Internet by state and local governments, except in compliance with such truncation standards.

Directs the Attorney General to award grants to state and local governments to come into compliance with such prohibition or the exception to it.

]]> Safeguarding Social Security Numbers Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced Safeguarding Social Security Numbers Act of 2008 Display Title Safeguarding Social Security Numbers Act of 2008 Official Title as Introduced A bill to require the Commissioner of Social Security to issue uniform standards for the method for truncation of social security account numbers in order to protect such numbers from being used in the perpetration of fraud or identity theft and to provide for a prohibition on the display to the general public on the Internet of social security account numbers by State and local governments, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2008-04-24T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2915is/xml/BILLS-110s2915is.xml 2008-04-24 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.