[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3218 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3218

 To amend title 31, United States Code, to prohibit the appearance of 
  Social Security account numbers on or through unopened mailings of 
     checks or other drafts issued on public money in the Treasury.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 4, 1999

  Mr. Calvert (for himself, Mr. Shimkus, Mr. Green of Wisconsin, Mr. 
 Ackerman, Mr. Paul, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Nethercutt, Mr. George Miller of 
   California, Ms. Hooley of Oregon, Mrs. Emerson, Mr. Sandlin, Ms. 
 Lofgren, Ms. Lee, Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. Tiahrt, Mr. 
 Cunningham, Mr. Payne, Mrs. Biggert, Mr. Doolittle, Mr. English, Mr. 
Bilbray, Mr. Hill of Montana, Mr. Shows, Mr. Gary Miller of California, 
   Mr. Holden, Mr. Campbell, Mrs. Morella, Mr. Ney, Mr. Ehrlich, Mr. 
Baker, Mr. Schaffer, and Mr. Kuykendall) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 31, United States Code, to prohibit the appearance of 
  Social Security account numbers on or through unopened mailings of 
     checks or other drafts issued on public money in the Treasury.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Social Security Number 
Confidentiality Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. OPEN DISCLOSURE OF SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBERS ON THE FACE 
              OF GOVERNMENT CHECK MAILINGS PROHIBITED.

    Section 3327 of title 31 of the United States Code (relating to 
general authority to issue checks and other drafts) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(a)'' before ``The Secretary''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) The Secretary of the Treasury shall take such actions as are 
necessary to ensure that Social Security account numbers (including 
derivatives of such numbers) are not visible on or through unopened 
mailings of checks or other drafts described in subsection (a) of this 
section.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE AND TRANSITIONAL RULE.

    (a) In General.--The amendments made by this Act shall apply with 
respect to all mailings of checks or other drafts issued on or after 
the date which is 3 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (b) Phase-in of Amendments.--Effective on the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall commence procedures to 
gradually implement the amendments made by this Act in advance of the 
effective date described in subsection (a). Not later than one year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter 
for each of the next two years, the Secretary shall transmit to each 
House of the Congress a report describing the manner and extent to 
which the requirements of the preceding sentence have been carried out.
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