[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4294 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4294

  To amend the Financial Stability Act of 2010 to provide a criminal 
     penalty for unauthorized disclosures of certain individually 
    identifiable information by officers or employees of a Federal 
                         department or agency.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 8, 2017

   Mr. Kustoff of Tennessee introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the 
Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined 
 by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as 
        fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Financial Stability Act of 2010 to provide a criminal 
     penalty for unauthorized disclosures of certain individually 
    identifiable information by officers or employees of a Federal 
                         department or agency.

    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 ``Prevention of Private Information 
Dissemination Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. CRIMINAL PENALTY FOR UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURES.

    Section 165 of the Financial Stability Act of 2010 (12 U.S.C. 5365) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(l) Criminal Penalty for Unauthorized Disclosures.--
            ``(1) In general.--Any officer or employee of a Federal 
        department or agency, who by virtue of such officer or 
        employee's employment or official position, has possession of, 
        or access to, agency records which contain individually 
        identifiable information submitted pursuant to the requirements 
        of this section, the disclosure of which is prohibited by 
        Federal statute, rule, or regulation, and who knowing that 
        disclosure of the specific material is so prohibited, willfully 
        discloses the material in any manner to any person or agency 
        not entitled to receive it, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 
        and fined not more than $5,000.
            ``(2) Obtaining records under false pretenses.--Any person 
        who knowingly and willfully requests or obtains information 
        described under paragraph (1) from a Federal department or 
        agency under false pretenses shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 
        and fined not more than $5,000.
            ``(3) Treatment of determinations.--For purposes of this 
        subsection, a determination made under subsection (d) or (i) 
        based on individually identifiable information submitted 
        pursuant to the requirements of this section shall be deemed 
        individually identifiable information, the disclosure of which 
        is prohibited by Federal statute.''.
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