S.Amdt. 4390

SA 4390. Ms. BALDWIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle I of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1097. DISCONTINUATION BY DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
OF USE OF SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBERS TO
IDENTIFY VETERANS.

(a) In General.--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) Exception.--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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