BILL REQ. #:  S-0579.1 

Read first time 01/17/2007.   Referred to Committee on Consumer Protection & Housing.

     AN ACT Relating to social security number privacy; and adding a new section to chapter 50.13 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 50.13 RCW to read as follows:
     Prior to requesting an individual's social security number, all private and public business enterprises must state that the request is not mandatory and that no penalty for withholding this information can be exacted on the individual by the business enterprise. All organizations holding social security numbers that have not been specifically granted the authority by federal or state law to possess this information must purge their files of these numbers within one hundred twenty days of the effective date of this act.