To require a report on the use of social security numbers by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the plans of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to discontinue such use.

SA 2788. Ms. COLLINS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 2763 proposed by Mr. Kirk (for himself, Mr. Tester, and
Ms. Mikulski) to the bill H.R. 2029, making appropriations for military
construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes;
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title II, add the following:

SEC. 247. REPORT ON USE OF SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS BY
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

(a) Report Required.--Not later than 120 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans
Affairs shall submit to the appropriate committees of
Congress a report on the use of social security numbers by
the Department of Veterans Affairs and the plans of the
Secretary to discontinue the unnecessary use.
(b) Contents.--The report required by subsection (a) shall
include the following:
(1) A list of documents and records of the Department of
Veterans Affairs that contain social security numbers.
(2) A list of all government and non-government entities
and the numbers of their employees that have access to the
social security numbers of veterans that are stored by the
Department.
(3) A description of how the Department, other governmental
entities, and persons use social security numbers they obtain
from the Department, including a description of any
information sharing arrangements that the Secretary may have
with the heads of other governmental entities.
(4) The number of data breaches of Department of Veterans
Affairs information systems that involved social security
numbers that occurred during the five-year period ending on
the date of the enactment of this Act that the Secretary
discovered or that were reported to the Secretary, a
description and status of the investigations conducted by the
Secretary regarding such breaches, and a description of the
plans of the Secretary to remediate such breaches.
(5) The plans of the Secretary, including a timeline, to
discontinue the unnecessary use by the Department of social
security numbers.
(c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Veterans' Affairs and the Committee on
Appropriations of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Veterans' Affairs and the Committee on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
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