[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3779 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3779


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 27, 2016

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
                        and Governmental Affairs

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                                 AN ACT


 
    To restrict the inclusion of social security account numbers on 
    documents sent by mail by the Federal Government, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 Fraud Prevention Act 
of 2016''.

SEC. 2. RESTRICTION OF SSNS ON DOCUMENTS SENT BY MAIL.

    (a) In General.--No department or agency of the Federal Government 
may include the Social Security account number of any individual on any 
document sent by mail unless the head of such department or agency 
determines that the inclusion of such Social Security number on such 
document is necessary.
    (b) Regulations.--Not later than 1 year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the head of each department and agency of the 
Federal Government shall issue regulations specifying the circumstances 
under which inclusion of a Social Security account number on a document 
sent by mail is necessary. Such regulations shall include--
            (1) instructions for the partial redaction of Social 
        Security account numbers whenever feasible; and
            (2) a requirement that Social Security account numbers not 
        be visible on the outside of any package sent by mail.
    (c) Effective Date.--This Act shall apply with respect to documents 
sent by mail on or after the date that is 1 year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.

            Passed the House of Representatives September 26, 2016.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.