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               BILL REQUEST - CODE REVISER'S OFFICE

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BILL REQ. #:        H-2426.1/01

ATTY/TYPIST:        GR:seg

BRIEF DESCRIPTION:

5364-S.E AMH TR H2426.1

ESSB 5364 - H COMM AMD

By Committee on Transportation

    Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:

    "NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 46.20 RCW to read as follows:

    Any contract entered into between the department and a private vendor in which the vendor provides services involving drivers' licenses or identicards must contain the following language: "Drivers' licenses and identicards must not contain:  (1) Driver social security numbers in either visible or machine readable form; or (2) driver fingerprints or thumbprints."

    Sec. 2.  RCW 26.23.140 and 1998 c 160 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:

    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 licenses, driver's licenses, occupational licenses, and recreational licenses.  The legislature finds that if social security numbers are accessible to the public, it will be relatively easy for someone to use another's social security number fraudulently 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 could 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 to record social security numbers on applications for professional, driver's, occupational, and recreational licenses.  If a waiver is not granted, the licensing agencies shall collect and disclose social security numbers as required under RCW 26.23.150.))

    Sec. 3.  RCW 26.23.150 and 1999 c 138 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

    In order to assist in child support enforcement as required by federal law, all applicants for an original, replacement, or renewal of a professional license, ((commercial)) driver's license, occupational license, or recreational license must furnish the licensing agency with the applicant's social security number, which shall be recorded on the application.  ((No applicant for an original, replacement, or renewal noncommercial driver's license is required to furnish the licensing agency with the applicant's social security number for purposes of assisting in child support enforcement prior to the time necessary to comply with the federal deadline.))  The licensing agencies collecting social security numbers shall not display the social security number on the license document.  Social security numbers collected by licensing agencies shall not be disclosed except as required by state or federal law or under RCW 26.23.120."

EFFECT:  Removes the requirement to again seek a waiver from the federal Department of Health and Human Services.

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