[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1245 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1245

 To allow access for researchers to the Continuous Work History Sample 
              data of the Social Security Administration.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 21, 1999

   Mr. Grams introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
 To allow access for researchers to the Continuous Work History Sample 
              data of the Social Security Administration.

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

SECTION 1. ACCESS TO THE CONTINUOUS WORK HISTORY SAMPLE DATA OF THE 
              SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Social Security Administration shall make available to the public the 
Continuous Work History Sample (referred to as the ``CWHS'') data 
administered by such Administration subject to the restrictions 
provided for in subsection (b).
    (b) Restrictions on Release of the CWHS Data of the Social Security 
Administration.--
            (1) Definitions.--In this section:
                    (A) Continuous work history sample.--The term 
                ``Continuous Work History Sample'' means the 
                statistical sample of individual administrative records 
                held by the Social Security Administration.
                    (B) User.--The term ``user'' means any individual 
                or legal entity, including employees of the Federal 
                Government, who receives access to the Continuous Work 
                History Sample.
            (2) Limitations.--The Office of Research and Statistics of 
        the Social Security Administration shall make statistical 
        samples of individual records from the CWHS available to a user 
        if the user--
                    (A) will make use of the data from the CWHS solely 
                for the purpose of conducting statistical research 
                activities;
                    (B) agrees in writing to such conditions as may be 
                reasonably determined by the Commissioner of the Social 
                Security Administration to be necessary to ensure that 
                data from the CWHS is not made available in 
                identifiable form; and
                    (C) fully reimburses the Office of Research and 
                Statistics for the cost of supplying the data.
            (3) No identifiers.--The Office of Research and Statistics 
        of the Social Security Administration shall remove all 
        identifiers which can link CWHS records to the identity of an 
        individual respondent prior to the release of the data to 
        protect privacy.
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