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Senate advanced identity-theft measures; sponsors urge federal action and remove SSNs from death certificates
Summary
Senators advanced a concurrent resolution urging Congress to address identity theft and moved other measures removing Social Security numbers from public documents; SCR1 and bills including SB89 (removing SSNs from death certificates) were advanced after sponsors cited multiple examples of SSN exposure and law-enforcement support.
Senators moved several measures on identity theft and employer verification, advancing a concurrent resolution (SCR1) intended to urge Congress to address misuse of Social Security numbers and taking action on related state measures.
Senator Walker, explaining the resolution and an amendment to make the measure more business-friendly, cited examples she said reflect the problem — a selective-service mailer with a visible Social Security number and military IDs that display SSNs — and said the resolution is "simply…
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