Social Security Number Fraud Prevention Act of 2017 2017-09-15 Public Law (This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on May 24, 2017. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Social Security Number Fraud Prevention Act of 2017

(Sec. 2) This bill: (1) prohibits federal agencies (including legislative and judicial branch agencies, with specified exceptions) from including any individual's Social Security account number on any document sent by mail unless the agency head determines that such inclusion is necessary; and (2) requires agencies that have Chief Financial Officers to issue regulations, within five years of this bill's enactment, that specify the circumstances under which such inclusion is necessary.

]]> 2017-09-06 Passed Senate without amendment (This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on May 24, 2017. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Social Security Number Fraud Prevention Act of 2017

(Sec. 2) This bill: (1) prohibits federal agencies (including legislative and judicial branch agencies, with specified exceptions) from including any individual's Social Security account number on any document sent by mail unless the agency head determines that such inclusion is necessary; and (2) requires agencies that have Chief Financial Officers to issue regulations, within five years of this bill's enactment, that specify the circumstances under which such inclusion is necessary.

]]> 2017-05-24 Passed House amended Social Security Number Fraud Prevention Act of 2017

(Sec. 2) This bill: (1) prohibits federal agencies (including legislative and judicial branch agencies, with specified exceptions) from including any individual's Social Security account number on any document sent by mail unless the agency head determines that such inclusion is necessary; and (2) requires agencies that have Chief Financial Officers to issue regulations, within five years of this bill's enactment, that specify the circumstances under which such inclusion is necessary.

]]> 2017-05-23 Reported to House amended, Part I Social Security Fraud Prevention Act of 2017

(Sec. 2) This bill: (1) prohibits federal agencies from including any individual's Social Security account number on any document sent by mail unless the agency determines that such inclusion is necessary; and (2) requires agencies, within five years of this bill's enactment, to issue regulations that specify the circumstances under which such inclusion is necessary.

]]> 2017-01-24 Introduced in House Social Security Fraud Prevention Act of 2017

This bill prohibits federal departments and agencies from including the Social Security account number of any individual on any document sent by mail unless the department or agency determines that inclusion of that Social Security number on the document is necessary.

Departments and agencies must issue regulations within one year of this bill's enactment that specify the circumstances under which the inclusion of Social Security account numbers on mailed documents is necessary.

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