Comprehensive Veterans' Data Protection and Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2006
Latest action · Jul 18, 2006 Unfavorable Executive Comment Received from Veterans' Affairs.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJun 12, 2006
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Comprehensive Veterans' Data Protection and Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2006 - Places upon the Secretary of Veterans Affairs an affirmative obligation to protect from any data breach the sensitive personal information of veterans and any other individuals that the Department of Veterans Affairs possesses, creates, or maintains, as well as information or tools (including passwords and encryption keys) used to protect the integrity of such data.
Requires the Secretary to: (1) implement and maintain reasonable security policies and procedures to protect such information; and (2) prescribe policies and procedures regarding employee and third party access to, and use of, such information which the Department receives, maintains, or transmits.
Directs the Secretary, upon discovery of a data breach, to: (1) notify the United States Secret Service, the Department's Inspector General, the congressional veterans' committees, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC); (2) notify each individual whose information was acquired or accessed by an unauthorized person; and (3) place a conspicuous notice on the Department's Internet website.
Requires the Secretary, upon request of an affected individual, to: (1) include a fraud alert in the file of the individual with each nationwide consumer reporting agency; (2) apply a security freeze to the file of such individual; and (3) provide free damage mitigation services, including credit monitoring and annual copies of consumer credit reports.
Establishes within the Department an Ombudsman for Data Security.
Cosponsors 142
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 12, 2006 to Jul 27, 2006, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IL | Lane Evans | Original | Jun 12, 2006 |
| D-MA | Barney Frank | Jun 13, 2006 | |
| D-TX | Charles A. Gonzalez | Jun 13, 2006 | |
| D-RI | James R. Langevin | Jun 13, 2006 | |
| D-MI | John D. Dingell | Jun 13, 2006 | |
| D-MA | Michael E. Capuano | Jun 13, 2006 | |
| D-ME | Michael H. Michaud | Jun 13, 2006 | |
| D-CA | Nancy Pelosi | Jun 13, 2006 | |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Jun 13, 2006 | |
| D-TX | Al Green | Jun 14, 2006 | |
| D-MS | Bennie G. Thompson | Jun 14, 2006 | |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Jun 14, 2006 | |
| D-NJ | Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Jun 14, 2006 | |
| D-FL | Corrine Brown | Jun 14, 2006 | |
| D-MI | Dale E. Kildee | Jun 14, 2006 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 18, 2006Unfavorable Executive Comment Received from Veterans' Affairs.
- Jun 20, 2006Executive Comment Requested from Veterans' Affairs.
- Jun 13, 2006Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3803)
- Jun 12, 2006Introduced in House
- Jun 12, 2006Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.
- Administrative procedure
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Commerce
- Computer security measures
- Consumer credit
- Consumer education
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Data banks
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Encryption
- Executive reorganization
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Financial services
- Fraud
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Governmental investigations
- Identification devices
- Identity theft
- Law
- Ombudsman
- Right of privacy
- Science, Technology, Communications
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 12, 2006Introduced in House
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