S.Amdt. 4025

SA 4025. Ms. BALDWIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 3896 proposed by Ms. Collins (for herself, Mr. Kirk,
Mr. Reed, and Mr. Tester) to the bill H.R. 2577, making appropriations
for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban
Development, 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 of division B, add the following:

discontinuation by department of veterans affairs of use of social
security account numbers to identify veterans

Sec. 251.  (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in consultation with the
Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Labor, shall
discontinue using Social Security account numbers to identify
individuals in all information systems of the Department of
Veterans Affairs as follows:
(1) For all veterans submitting to the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs new claims for benefits under laws
administered by the Secretary, not later than two years after
the date of the enactment of this Act.
(2) For all individuals not described in paragraph (1), not
later than five years after the date of the enactment of this
Act.
(b) The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may use a Social
Security account number to identify an individual in an
information system of the Department of Veterans Affairs if
and only if the use of such number is required to obtain
information the Secretary requires from an information system
that is not under the jurisdiction of the Secretary.
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