Resolve, To Encourage State Agencies To Limit Their Use of Social Security Numbers

Sec. 1. Guidance to state agencies to limit their use of social security numbers. Resolved: That the Department of Administrative and Financial Services shall create a policy to be used as guidance by state agencies that encourages the agencies to limit their use of social security numbers in outgoing written correspondence and interdepartmental correspondence by either not including a social security number at all or using only the last 4 digits of a social security number. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the policy created pursuant to this section does not constitute rulemaking under the Maine Administrative Procedure Act.