Bill Text: NY S04672 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Limits the use of social security numbers for identification of employees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S04672 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S04672-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4672
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 14, 2011
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       Introduced  by Sen. FLANAGAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
         ment Operations
       AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to limiting the use
         of social security numbers for identification of employees
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. The public officers law is amended by adding a new section
    2  96-b to read as follows:
    3    S 96-B. USE OF SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS  FOR  IDENTIFICATION  PURPOSES.
    4  (1)  NO AGENCY SHALL USE THE SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS OF ITS EMPLOYEES AS
    5  A MEANS OF IDENTIFYING SAID EMPLOYEES UNLESS SPECIFICALLY AUTHORIZED  OR
    6  REQUIRED BY LAW.
    7    (2)  AN  AGENCY WHICH REQUESTS OR REQUIRES AN EMPLOYEE TO DISCLOSE HIS
    8  OR HER SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER, OR TO PLACE HIS OR  HER  SOCIAL  SECURITY
    9  NUMBER  ON  ANY  DOCUMENT,  SHALL INFORM THE EMPLOYEE IN WRITING WHETHER
   10  SUCH DISCLOSURE IS VOLUNTARY OR MANDATORY;
   11    (A) IF SUCH DISCLOSURE IS  VOLUNTARY,  THE  AGENCY  SHALL  ADVISE  THE
   12  EMPLOYEE WHAT USES WILL BE MADE OF SUCH NUMBER.
   13    (B) IF SUCH DISCLOSURE IS MANDATORY, THE AGENCY SHALL:
   14    (I) BE STATUTORILY AUTHORIZED TO REQUIRE THE EMPLOYEE'S SOCIAL SECURI-
   15  TY NUMBER;
   16    (II)  ADVISE  THE  EMPLOYEE  OF THE STATUTORY OR OTHER AUTHORITY UNDER
   17  WHICH SUCH NUMBER IS REQUIRED; AND
   18    (III) ADVISE THE EMPLOYEE WHAT USES WILL BE MADE OF SUCH NUMBER.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   20  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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