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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 Assistance 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 subsection, the Secretary shall instruct any
recipient or subgrantee not to disclose to any person,
agency, or entity any personally identifying
information about any client if the Secretary,
recipient, or subgrantee believes, based upon
reasonable evidence, that the client is--
''(i) a victim of domestic violence, dating
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 violence,
sexual assault, or stalking.
''(B) Other federal and state programs.--The
Secretary shall not require or ask a recipient or
subgrantee of any other Federal or State program to
disclose personally identifying information about any
clients if the persons, agencies, or entities
implementing those programs believe, based upon
reasonable evidence, that those clients are--
''(i) victims of domestic violence, dating
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 children of
victims of domestic violence, dating violence,
sexual assault, or stalking.
''(C) Homeless management information systems.--The
Secretary shall instruct any recipient or subgrantee
under this subsection 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
obtained informed, reasonably time-limited, written
consent from the client to whom the information
relates. The Secretary may require or ask any recipient
or subgrantee to share nonpersonally identifying data
in the aggregate regarding 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 paragraph, the
term personally identifying information means
information from or about an individual that could be
used to identify such individual, 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, including
grade point average, date of birth, academic 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.''.
A:
Safe Housing Identity Exception for the Lives of Domestic Violence Victims Act - SHIELD Act - Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to prohibit disclosure of the personally identifying information of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.