§ 5319. Limitations on access to financial records

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1992

   Veterans’ Benefits Act of 1992

   Pub. L. 102–568 title VI § 603(b)(1) · 106 Stat. 4320

   Enacted · 38 U.S.C. § 5319

   (Added Pub. L. 102–568, title VI, § 603(b)(1), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4342.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Added Pub. L. 102–568, title VI, § 603(b)(1), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4342.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (1) Chapter 53 is amended by adding at the end the following new section: “§ 5319. Limitations on access to financial records “(a) The Secretary may make a request referred to in section U13(p) of the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 (12 U.S.C. 3413(p)) only if the Secretary determines that the requested information— “(1) is necessary in order for the Secretary to administer the provisions of law referred to in that section; and “(2) cannot be secured by a reasonable search of records and information of the Department. “(b) The Secretary shall include a certification of the determinations referred to in subsection (a) in each request presented to a financial institution. “(c) Information disclosed pursuant to a request referred to in subsection (a) may be used solely for the purpose of the administration of benefits programs under laws administered by the Secretary if, except for the exemption in subsection (a), the disclosure of that information would otherwise be prohibited by any provision of the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978.”.

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