[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5320 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5320

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 25, 2016

 Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas (for himself and Mr. Renacci) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
    To restrict the inclusion of social security account numbers on 
 documents sent by mail by the Social Security Administration, 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 Must Avert Identity 
Loss (MAIL) Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. RESTRICTION ON SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBERS IN DOCUMENTS 
              SENT BY MAIL.

    (a) In General.--Section 205(c)(2)(C) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 405(c)(2)(C)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(xiv)(I) The Commissioner of Social Security shall ensure that no 
document sent by mail by the Social Security Administration includes a 
complete social security account number unless the Commissioner 
determines that inclusion of such complete number is necessary.
    ``(II) Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of 
this clause and not later than each of March 31 and September 30 of 
each year following the year in which such date of enactment occurs, 
the Commissioner of Social Security shall submit to the Committee on 
Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Finance of the Senate a report on the implementation of subclause (I). 
Such report shall include--
            ``(aa) the title and identification number of each document 
        used by the Social Security Administration during the previous 
        year on which is printed an individual's complete social 
        security account number;
            ``(bb) the most recent date on which each such document was 
        updated; and
            ``(cc) the projected date on which complete social security 
        account numbers will be removed from each such document, or if 
        the Commissioner determines that inclusion of such complete 
        number is necessary, the rationale for such determination.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall take effect as soon as 
practicable after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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