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Legislation by 2008 Presidential Candidates: requiring "Privacy Impact Statement" on new federal rules
Source: Federal Agency Protection of Privacy Act (H.R.4561)
SPONSOR'S INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT: It is clear that this bill's many cosponsors do not agree on every issue. The same can be said of the bill's noncongressional supporters, which include groups ranging from the National Rifle Association to the American Civil Liberties Union. The sphere of privacy, which Justice Brandeis eloquently described as the ''right to be let alone,'' is not only rapidly diminishing, it is increasingly penetrable. The Federal Agency Protection of Privacy Act takes the first--necessary--step toward protecting the privacy of information collected by the federal government, by requiring that rules noticed for public comment by federal agencies be accompanied by an assessment of the rule's impact on personal privacy interests, including the extent to which the proposed rule provides notice of the collection of personally identifiable information, what information will be obtained, and how this informational will be collected, protected,
maintained, used and disclosed. I want to emphasize H.R. 4561 will not unduly burden regulators nor will it hinder law enforcement. This bill will apply the best antiseptic--sunshine--to the federal rulemaking process by securing the public's right to know about how rules will affect their personal privacy. EXCERPTS FROM BILL: - Requires Federal agencies, when promulgating a rule, to publish a privacy impact analysis.
- Requires an agency promulgating a rule that may have a significant privacy impact on individuals to use specified techniques to assure that individuals have been given an opportunity to participate in the rulemaking.
- Requires each agency to carry out a periodic review of promulgated rules that have privacy impact, every ten years after the rule was published.
LEGISLATIVE OUTCOME: Passed House on a voice vote; sent to Senate on Oct. 8, 2002; never called to vote in Senate.
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Headline: Require "Privacy Impact Statement" on new federal rules
- Headline 2: Sponsored bill for "Privacy Impact Statement" on new rules
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Independents
participating in 02-HR4561 |
| John Hostettler |
s1o | IN 2010 Senate Challenger (lost GOP primary); formerly US Rep. | |
| Bob Schaffer |
s1o | CO Former GOP Senate Challenger (2008) | |
| Bob Stump |
s1o | Arizona Former GOP (until 2010) | |
Total recorded by OnTheIssues:
Democrats:
25
Republicans:
16
Independents:
3 |
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