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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor Ch. 521
CHAPTER 521
(House Bill 56)
AN ACT concerning
Consumer Protection - Privacy of Social Security Numbers
FOR the purpose of prohibiting the public posting or displaying of an individual's
Social Security number under certain circumstances; prohibiting the printing of
an individual's Social Security number on certain cards under certain
circumstances; prohibiting a person from requiring an individual to transmit
the individual's Social Security number over the Internet under certain
circumstances; prohibiting a person from transmitting initiating the
transmission of an individual's Social Security number over the Internet under
certain circumstances; prohibiting a person from requiring an individual to use
the individual's Social Security number to access an Internet website under
certain circumstances; prohibiting the printing of an individual's Social Security
number on materials mailed to the individual or the inclusion of an individual's
Social Security number in materials electronically transmitted or transmitted by
facsimile to the individual under certain circumstances; providing for certain
exceptions to the prohibitions relating to an individual's Social Security number;
providing that certain provisions of this Act do not impose certain duties on an
interactive computer service provider or a telecommunications provider;
providing that a violation of this Act is an unfair or deceptive trade practice
under the Maryland Consumer Protection Act; authorizing a person that, prior
to a certain date, used an individual's Social Security number in a manner
prohibited under this Act to continue to use the individual's Social Security
number under certain circumstances; defining certain terms; providing for the
termination of certain provisions of this Act; providing for the application of this
Act; providing for a delayed effective date; and generally relating to the privacy
of Social Security numbers.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Commercial Law
Section 13-301(14)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2000 Replacement Volume and 2004 Supplement)
BY adding to
Article - Commercial Law
Section 14-3301 through 14-3303, inclusive, to be under the new subtitle
"Subtitle 33. The Social Security Number Privacy Act"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2000 Replacement Volume and 2004 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
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