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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5364
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State of Washington 57th Legislature 2001 Regular Session
By Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Horn, Haugen and Benton)
READ FIRST TIME 02/21/01.
_1 AN ACT Relating to drivers' licenses and identicards; amending
_2 RCW 26.23.140 and 26.23.150; and adding a new section to chapter
_3 46.20 RCW.
_4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
_5 NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 46.20
_6 RCW to read as follows:
_7 Any contract entered into between the department and a private
_8 vendor in which the vendor provides services involving drivers'
_9 licenses or identicards must contain the following language:
10 "Drivers' licenses and identicards must not contain: (1) Driver
11 social security numbers in either visible or machine readable
12 form; or (2) driver fingerprints or thumbprints."
13 Sec. 2. RCW 26.23.140 and 1998 c 160 s 6 are each amended to read
14 as follows:
15 The federal personal responsibility and work opportunity
16 reconciliation act of 1996, P.L. 104-193, requires states to
17 collect social security numbers as part of the application process
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_1 for professional licenses, driver's licenses, occupational
_2 licenses, and recreational licenses. The legislature finds that if
_3 social security numbers are accessible to the public, it will be
_4 relatively easy for someone to use another's social security
_5 number fraudulently to assume that person's identity and gain
_6 access to bank accounts, credit services, billing information,
_7 driving history, and other sources of personal information.
_8 ((Public Law 104-193 could compound and exacerbate
the disturbing
_9 trend of social security number-related fraud. In
order to prevent
10 fraud and curtail invasions of privacy, the governor,
through the
11 department of social and health services, shall seek
a waiver to
12 the federal mandate to record social security numbers
on
13 applications for professional, driver's,
occupational, and
14 recreational licenses. If a waiver is not granted,
the licensing
15 agencies shall collect and disclose social security
numbers as
16 required under RCW 26.23.150.))
17 Sec. 3. RCW 26.23.150 and 1999 c 138 s 2 are each amended to read
18 as follows:
19 In order to assist in child support enforcement as required by
20 federal law, all applicants for an original, replacement, or
21 renewal of a professional license, ((commercial))
driver's
22 license, occupational license, or recreational license must
23 furnish the licensing agency with the applicant's social security
24 number, which shall be recorded on the application. ((No
applicant
25 for an original, replacement, or renewal
noncommercial driver's
26 license is required to furnish the licensing agency
with the
27 applicant's social security number for purposes of
assisting in
28 child support enforcement prior to the time necessary
to comply
29 with the federal deadline.)) The licensing
agencies collecting
30 social security numbers shall not display the social security
31 number on the license document. Social security numbers collected
32 by licensing agencies shall not be disclosed except as required by
33 state or federal law or under RCW 26.23.120.
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