6418-S AAS 2/17/98 S5012.3

SSB 6418 - S AMD - 781

By Senators Hargrove, Kline, Zarelli, Strannigan, Fairley, Hochstatter and Franklin

                                                   ADOPTED 2/17/98

    Beginning on page 14, after line 32, strike all material through "applicants." on page 15, line 3, and insert the following:

    "The federal personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act of 1996, P.L. 104-193, requires states to collect social security numbers as part of the application process for professional, occupational, recreational, and driver's licenses.  The legislature finds that if social security numbers are accessible to the public, it will be relatively easy for someone fraudulently to use another's social security number to assume that person's identity and gain access to bank accounts, credit services, billing information, driving history, and other sources of personal information.  Public law 104-193 will compound and exacerbate the disturbing trend of social security number-related fraud.  In order to prevent fraud and curtail invasions of privacy, the governor, through the department of social and health services, shall seek a waiver to the federal mandate of P.L. 104-193."

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