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S 3063 114th Congress Senate Armed Forces and National Security Computer security and identity theft Department of Veterans Affairs Government information and archives

Veterans' Identity Theft Protection Act of 2016

Introduced: June 16, 2016 Introduced by: Baldwin, Tammy Democratic · Wisconsin See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Jun 16, 2016
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Veterans' Identity Theft Protection Act of 2016

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to discontinue using Social Security account numbers to identify individuals in its information systems by the following deadlines:

  • for all veterans submitting new claims for benefits, by not later than two years after the date of enactment of this bill; and
  • for all other individuals, by not later than five years after such date.

The VA may use a Social Security account number to identify an individual in a VA information system only if the VA must use such number to obtain information from an information system that is not under its jurisdiction.

What's happening now June 16, 2016

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

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Moran, Jerry
Kansas · Jun 16, 2016
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3063: Veterans' Identity Theft Protection Act of 2016. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-3063/
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"S. 3063: Veterans' Identity Theft Protection Act of 2016." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-3063/.
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S. 3063, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-3063/.
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