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        H.R.3218

                       One Hundred Sixth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
             the twenty-fourth day of January, two thousand


                                 An Act


 
  To amend title 31, United States Code, to prohibit the appearance of 
   Social Security account numbers on or through unopened mailings of 
     checks or other drafts issued on public money in the Treasury.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Social Security Number 
Confidentiality Act of 2000''.

SEC. 2. OPEN DISCLOSURE OF SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBERS ON THE FACE 
              OF GOVERNMENT CHECK MAILINGS PROHIBITED.

    Section 3327 of title 31 of the United States Code (relating to 
general authority to issue checks and other drafts) is amended--
        (1) by inserting ``(a)'' before ``The Secretary''; and
        (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) The Secretary of the Treasury shall take such actions as are 
necessary to ensure that Social Security account numbers (including 
derivatives of such numbers) are not visible on or through unopened 
mailings of checks or other drafts described in subsection (a) of this 
section.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE AND TRANSITIONAL RULE.

    (a) In General.--The amendments made by this Act shall apply with 
respect to all mailings of checks or other drafts issued on or after 
the date which is 3 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (b) Phase-in of Amendments.--Effective on the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall commence procedures to 
gradually implement the amendments made by this Act in advance of the 
effective date described in subsection (a). Not later than 1 year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter for each 
of the next 2 years, the Secretary shall transmit to each House of the 
Congress a report describing the manner and extent to which the 
requirements of the preceding sentence have been carried out.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.

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