Bill Text: CT SB00315 | 2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: An Act Prohibiting The Unnecessary Collection Of Social Security Numbers.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-05-04 - House Calendar Number 504 [SB00315 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2012-SB00315-Introduced.html
General Assembly |
Raised Bill No. 315 | ||
February Session, 2012 |
LCO No. 1606 | ||
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Referred to Committee on General Law |
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AN ACT PROHIBITING THE UNNECESSARY COLLECTION OF SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2012) (a) For the purposes of this section, "person" means any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, organization or other entity, but does not include the state or any political subdivision of the state, or any agency thereof.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, a person doing business in the state shall not request or collect from an individual such individual's Social Security number. The provisions of this subsection shall apply to: (1) group and individual health insurance policies providing coverage of the type specified in subdivisions (1), (2), (4), (6), (10) and (12) of section 38a-469 of the general statutes.
(c) The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to (1) the collection of a Social Security number as required by state or federal law, (2) a transaction regulated by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Modernization Act, for a purpose authorized by such act, (3) a transaction regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, for a purpose authorized by such act, (4) a report prepared by a consumer credit reporting agency in response to a request by the individual, or (5) a background check on the individual, identity verification, fraud prevention, medical treatment, law enforcement purposes or the individual's employment, including employment benefits.
(d) Any person who violates the provisions of subsection (b) of this section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars for a first offense and shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars for each subsequent offense.
(e) Any person who wilfully violates the provisions of subsection (b) of this section shall be subject to a civil penalty of one thousand dollars for each such violation.
(f) All civil penalties received pursuant to subsection (e) of this section shall be deposited into the privacy protection guaranty and enforcement account established under section 42-472a of the general statutes.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
Section 1 |
July 1, 2012 |
New section |
Statement of Purpose:
To prohibit the unnecessary collection of Social Security numbers.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]