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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6273 
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide for enhanced protec-
tions against identity theft related to the public filing of separation 
forms of members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 29, 2006 
Mr. CARDOZA introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide for 
enhanced protections against identity theft related to 
the public filing of separation forms of members of the 
Armed Forces, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. PROTECTION AGAINST VETERAN IDENTITY 
THEFT RELATED TO PUBLIC FILING OF SEPA-
RATION FORMS. 
(a) IDENTITY THEFT PROTECTION.—Not later than 
180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall prescribe regulations 
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to establish guidelines for States and local governments 
with respect to protecting against identity theft when pub-
licly filing a DD–214. 
(b) GUIDELINES FOR PROOF OF IDENTITY THEFT.— 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall pre-
scribe regulations to establish guidelines for use by a vet-
eran to demonstrate that the personal identification infor-
mation of the veteran was misused by an unauthorized 
person as a direct result of the public filing of the vet-
eran’s DD–214. 
(c) CREDIT MONITORING
AND FRAUD REMEDI-
ATION.— 
(1) PROVISION OF SERVICES.—The Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs shall provide credit monitoring 
services and fraud remediation to an eligible veteran 
during the one-year period beginning on the date on 
which the Secretary approves the application of the 
veteran. 
(2) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive 
services under this subsection, a veteran shall submit 
to the Secretary an application demonstrating that 
under the guidelines established under subsection 
(b), the personal identification information of the 
veteran was misused by an unauthorized person as 
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a direct result of the public filing of the veteran’s 
DD–214. 
(3) CREDIT
MONITORING
SERVICES.—Credit 
monitoring services under this subsection shall in-
clude each of the following: 
(A) One copy of the credit report of the 
veteran every three months. 
(B) Fraud resolution services for the vet-
eran. 
(C) Identity theft insurance in a coverage 
amount that does not exceed $30,000 in aggre-
gate liability for the insured. 
(d) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than Sep-
tember 30 of each year, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
shall submit to Congress a report on the number of iden-
tity thefts connected to the public filing of DD–214s that 
occurred during the year preceding the year during which 
the report is submitted. The Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
shall seek to cooperate with States and local governments 
to obtain the information submitted in the report. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) The term ‘‘DD–214’’ means the separation 
form of a member of the Armed Forces designated 
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as Department of Defense Form DD–214 (or any 
successor form). 
(2) The term ‘‘veteran’’ has the meaning given 
such term under section 101(2) of title 38, United 
States Code. 
(3) The term ‘‘identity theft’’ has the meaning 
given such term under section 603 of the Fair Cred-
it Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681a). 
(4) The term ‘‘personal identification informa-
tion’’, with respect to an individual, means any in-
formation about the individual maintained by an 
agency, including— 
(A) education, financial transactions, med-
ical history, and criminal or employment his-
tory; 
(B) information that can be used to distin-
guish or trace the individual’s identity, includ-
ing name, social security number, date and 
place of birth, mother’s maiden name, or bio-
metric records; or 
(C) any other personal information that is 
linked or linkable to the individual. 
(5) The term ‘‘fraud remediation’’ means serv-
ices to assist an individual in the process of recov-
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ering and rehabilitating the credit of the individual 
after the individual experiences identity theft. 
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