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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2695 
To amend the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to protect the per-
sonally identifying information of victims of domestic violence, dating 
violence, sexual assault, and stalking. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 26, 2005 
Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin (for herself and Ms. HARRIS) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To amend the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to 
protect the personally identifying information of victims 
of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and 
stalking. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Safe Housing Identity 
Exception for the Lives of Domestic Violence Victims Act’’ 
or the ‘‘SHIELD Act’’.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE MCKINNEY-VENTO HOMELESS 
ASSISTANCE ACT. 
Section 423(a) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless As-
sistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11383(a)) is amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘(8) CONFIDENTIALITY.— 
‘‘(A) HOUSING ASSISTANCE GRANTS AND 
PROGRAMS.—In the course of awarding grants 
or implementing programs under this sub-
section, the Secretary shall instruct any recipi-
ent or subgrantee not to disclose to any person, 
agency, or entity any personally identifying in-
formation about any client if the Secretary, re-
cipient, or subgrantee believes, based upon rea-
sonable evidence, that the client is— 
‘‘(i) a victim of domestic violence, dat-
ing violence, sexual assault, or stalking; 
‘‘(ii) the parent or guardian of a 
minor victim of domestic violence, dating 
violence, sexual assault, or stalking; or 
‘‘(iii) the dependent or minor child of 
a victim of domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, sexual assault, or stalking. 
‘‘(B) OTHER FEDERAL AND STATE PRO-
GRAMS.—The Secretary shall not require or ask 
a recipient or subgrantee of any other Federal
or State program to disclose personally identi-
fying information about any clients if the per-
sons, agencies, or entities implementing those 
programs believe, based upon reasonable evi-
dence, that those clients are— 
‘‘(i) victims of domestic violence, dat-
ing violence, sexual assault, or stalking; 
‘‘(ii) the parents or guardians of 
minor victims of domestic violence, dating 
violence, sexual assault, or stalking; or 
‘‘(iii) the dependents or minor chil-
dren of victims of domestic violence, dating 
violence, sexual assault, or stalking. 
‘‘(C) HOMELESS MANAGEMENT INFORMA-
TION
SYSTEMS.—The Secretary shall instruct 
any recipient or subgrantee under this sub-
section or any recipient or subgrantee of any 
other Federal or State program participating in 
any homeless management information system 
funded in whole or in part under this subsection 
that personally identifying information about 
any client may only be submitted to a homeless 
management information system if the program 
seeking to disclose such information has ob-
tained informed, reasonably time-limited, writ-
ten consent from the client to whom the infor-
mation relates. The Secretary may require or 
ask any recipient or subgrantee to share non-
personally identifying data in the aggregate re-
garding services to clients and nonpersonally 
identifying demographic information in order to 
comply with the data collection requirements of 
homeless management information systems. 
‘‘(D) DEFINITION.—As used in this para-
graph, the term personally identifying informa-
tion means information from or about an indi-
vidual that could be used to identify such indi-
vidual, including— 
‘‘(i) first and last name; 
‘‘(ii) a home or other physical address, 
including street name, name of city or 
town, and ZIP code; 
‘‘(iii) an email address or other online 
contact information, such as an instant 
messaging user identifier or a screen name 
that reveals an individual’s email address; 
‘‘(iv) a telephone number; 
‘‘(v) a social security number; 
‘‘(vi) an Internet Protocol address or 
host name that identifies an individual;
‘‘(vii) a persistent identifier, such as a 
customer number held in a ‘cookie’ or 
processor serial number, that is combined 
with other available data that identifies an 
individual; and 
‘‘(viii) any other information, includ-
ing grade point average, date of birth, aca-
demic or occupational interests, athletic or 
extracurricular interests, racial or ethnic 
background, or religious affiliation, that, in 
combination with any of the above, would 
serve to identify any individual.’’. 
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