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2003 SESSION

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SB 979 Identity theft.

Introduced by: William C. Mims | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Identity theft. Limits the appearance of social security numbers on identification cards and parcels. The bill expands limits on acquisition and use of the personal identifying information of another, including use of identifying information of a dead person. The bill requires the Library Board to develop regulations providing for the destruction of social security numbers in public records. The bill sets up a procedure for blocking credit misinformation appearing in a credit report and expungement of false identity information in police and court records.

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:

Identity theft. Limits the appearance of social security numbers on identification cards and parcels. The bill punishes the distribution or possession with intent to distribute another's personal identifying information or the distribution of the means by which personal information may be stolen. The bill requires the Library Board to develop regulations providing for the destruction of social security numbers in public records. The bill sets up a procedure for blocking credit misinformation appearing in a credit report.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Identity theft. Limits the appearance of social security numbers on identification cards and parcels. The bill punishes the distribution or possession with intent to distribute another's personal identifying information or the distribution of the means by which personal information may be stolen. The bill punishes an identity theft offense resulting in more than $200 in damages by up to 20 years in prison as opposed to a Class 5 felony (maximum 10 years in prison). The bill creates a mechanism whereby a victim may be judicially declared factually innocent and enter that information in a database to be maintained by the Attorney General for scrutiny by criminal justice agencies, victims of identity theft and those authorized by the victims. The bill requires the Library Board to develop regulations providing for the destruction of social security numbers in public records. The bill allows a clerk of court to refuse to record a document upon which there appears a social security number. The bill sets up a procedure for blocking credit misinformation appearing in a credit report.