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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Part A · Chapter 7 — Social Security

§ 1306b. State data exchanges

Statutory text

Whenever the Commissioner of Social Security requests information from a State for the purpose of ascertaining an individual’s eligibility for benefits (or the correct amount of such benefits) under subchapter II or XVI of this chapter, the standards of the Commissioner promulgated pursuant to section 1306 of this title or any other Federal law for the use, safeguarding, and disclosure of information are deemed to meet any standards of the State that would otherwise apply to the disclosure of information by the State to the Commissioner.

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. Pub. L. 106–169 title II § 209 · 113 Stat. 1822

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 1306b

    (Pub. L. 106–169, title II, § 209, Dec. 14, 1999, 113 Stat. 1842.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 106–169, title II, § 209, Dec. 14, 1999, 113 Stat. 1842.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 209. STATE DATA EXCHANGES. Whenever the Commissioner of Social Security requests information from a State for the purpose of ascertaining an individual’s eligibility for benefits (or the correct amount of such benefits) under title II or XVI of the Social Security Act, the standards of the Commissioner promulgated pursuant to section 1106 of such Act or any other Federal law for the use, safeguarding, and disclosure of information are deemed to meet any standards of the State that would otherwise apply to the disclosure of information by the State to the Commissioner.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999, and not as part of the Social Security Act which comprises this chapter.

Credits

(Pub. L. 106–169, title II, § 209, , 113 Stat. 1842.)

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