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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
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  January 23, 2000 and December 4, 2001]
[CITE: 42USC1306b]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                       CHAPTER 7--SOCIAL SECURITY
 
   SUBCHAPTER XI--GENERAL PROVISIONS, PEER REVIEW, AND ADMINISTRATIVE 
                             SIMPLIFICATION
 
                       Part A--General Provisions
 
Sec. 1306b. State data exchanges

    Whenever the Commissioner of Social Security requests information 
from a State for the purpose of ascertaining an individual's eligibility 
for benefits (or the correct amount of such benefits) under subchapter 
II or XVI of this chapter, the standards of the Commissioner promulgated 
pursuant to section 1306 of this title or any other Federal law for the 
use, safeguarding, and disclosure of information are deemed to meet any 
standards of the State that would otherwise apply to the disclosure of 
information by the State to the Commissioner.

(Pub. L. 106-169, title II, Sec. 209, Dec. 14, 1999, 113 Stat. 1842.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Foster Care Independence Act of 
1999, and not as part of the Social Security Act which comprises this 
chapter.
