US Congress House Bill 220 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-02-08 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management .
Pending: House Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2011 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit using a Social Security account number except for specified Social Security and tax purposes. Prohibits the Social Security Administration from divulging the Social Security account number of an individual to any federal, state, or local government agency or instrumentality, or to any other individual. Amends the Privacy Act of 1974 to prohibit any federal, state, or local government agency or instrumentality from requesting an individual to disclose his Social Security account number on either a mandatory or a voluntary basis. Prohibits any two federal agencies or instrumentalities from implementing the same identifying number with respect to any individual (except as authorized by the Social Security Act). Prohibits any federal agency from: (1) establishing or mandating a uniform standard for identification of an individual that is required to be used by any other federal or state agency, or by a private person, for any purpose other than that of conducting the authorized activities of the standard-establishing or -mandating federal agency; or (2) conditioning receipt of any federal grant, contract, or other federal funding on the adoption, by a state or local government, or by a state agency, of such a uniform standard.

Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2011

Rep. Ron Paul [R-TX]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-08	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management .
2011-01-17	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
2011-01-07	House	Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
2011-01-07	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2011-01-07	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/220/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr220/BILLS-112hr220ih.pdf