S 2915
110th Congress
Senate
Social Welfare
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Identity theft
Internet
Science, Technology, Communications
Social security numbers
Standards
Safeguarding Social Security Numbers Act of 2008
Introduced: April 24, 2008
Introduced by:
Schumer, Charles E.
Democratic
· New York
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Became law
Apr 24, 2008
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Apr 24, 2008
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Safeguarding Social Security Numbers Act of 2008 - Directs the Commissioner of Social Security to issue uniform standards for the method for truncation of Social Security account numbers in order to facilitate their protection from use in fraud or identity theft.
Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit the display of Social Security account numbers to the general public on the Internet by state and local governments, except in compliance with such truncation standards.
Directs the Attorney General to award grants to state and local governments to come into compliance with such prohibition or the exception to it.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Committees of jurisdiction
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