Congress 107 - S 2492 - Federal Agency Protection of Privacy Act

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Administrative procedure Bank records Citizen participation Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Computer networks Computers and government Conferences Congress Congressional oversight Congressional reporting requirements Congressional-executive relations Department of the Treasury Electronic government information Finance and Financial Sector Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publicity Health Identification devices Injunctions Internal revenue law Judicial review of administrative acts Law Limitation of actions Medical records Photography Public meetings of administrative bodies Regulatory impact statements Right of privacy Science, Technology, Communications Social security numbers Social Welfare Taxation Telephone

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Federal Agency Protection of Privacy Act - Requires Federal agencies: (1) when publishing a general notice of proposed rulemaking for any proposed rule or for an interpretative rule involving the internal revenue laws, to prepare, make available for public comment, and publish an initial analysis describing the rule's impact on the privacy of individuals; and (2) when promulgating the final rule, to prepare, make publicly available, and publish a final privacy impact analysis that includes a summary of the significant issues raised by and changes made pursuant to public comments on the initial analysis.

Requires the head of an agency promulgating a rule that may have a significant privacy impact on individuals or on a substantial number of individuals to use specified techniques to assure that individuals have been given an opportunity to participate in the rulemaking.

Requires each agency to: (1) carry out a periodic review of promulgated rules that have such impact to determine whether each such rule can be amended or rescinded in a manner that minimizes such impact while remaining in accordance with applicable statutes; (2) carry out such review in accordance with a plan that provides for the review of each rule every ten years after the rule was published as a final rule; and (3) publish annually a list of the rules to be reviewed.

Sets forth provisions governing judicial review of agency compliance with this Act.

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May 9, 2002

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4154-4155)
May 9, 2002

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4153-4154)
May 9, 2002

Introduced in Senate

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