Taxpayer Identity Protection Act of 2019

II 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S. 240 To require the Internal Revenue Service to establish, incrementally over five years, a nationwide program to provide personal identification num- bers to taxpayers to help prevent tax-related identity theft. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES JANUARY 28, 2019 Ms. COLLINS (for herself and Mr. JONES) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To require the Internal Revenue Service to establish, incre- mentally over five years, a nationwide program to provide personal identification numbers to taxpayers to help pre- vent tax-related identity theft. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Taxpayer Identity Pro- 4 tection Act of 2019’’. 5 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:01 Feb 01, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S240.IS S240 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 2 •S 240 IS SEC. 2. IDENTITY PROTECTION PERSONAL IDENTIFICA- 1 TION NUMBERS. 2 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsection (b), the Sec- 3 retary of the Treasury or the Secretary’s delegate (here- 4 after referred to in this section as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall 5 establish a program to issue, upon the request of any indi- 6 vidual, a number which may be used in connection with 7 such individual’s social security number (or other identi- 8 fying information with respect to such individual as deter- 9 mined by the Secretary) to assist the Secretary in 10 verifying such individual’s identity. 11 (b) REQUIREMENTS.— 12 (1) ANNUAL EXPANSION.—For each calendar 13 year beginning after the date of the enactment of 14 this Act, the Secretary shall provide numbers 15 through the program described in subsection (a) to 16 individuals residing in such States as the Secretary 17 deems appropriate, provided that the total number 18 of States served by such program during such year 19 is greater than the total number of States served by 20 such program during the preceding year. 21 (2) NATIONWIDE AVAILABILITY.—Not later 22 than 5 years after the date of the enactment of this 23 Act, the Secretary shall ensure that the program de- 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:01 Feb 01, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S240.IS S240 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 3 •S 240 IS scribed in subsection (a) is made available to any in- 1 dividual residing in the United States. 2 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:01 Feb 01, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\S240.IS S240 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS