[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4354 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4354

To amend title II of the Social Security Act to prohibit the buying and 
              selling of social security account numbers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 5, 1994

  Mr. Gallo introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to prohibit the buying and 
              selling of social security account numbers.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION OF BUYING AND SELLING OF SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT 
              NUMBERS.

    Section 208(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 408(a)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (8), by adding ``or'' at the end; and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (8) the following new 
        paragraph:
            ``(9) buys, sells, offers for sale, transfers, takes or 
        gives in exchange, or pledges or gives in pledge any 
        information for the purpose, in whole or in part, of conveying 
        by means of such information the social security account number 
        of any other person, or any derivative of such number, without 
        the written consent of such other person;''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 1 shall apply with respect to 
violations occuring on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.

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