A. For applicants or persons who have been assigned a social security number, the state shall have and use procedures requiring that the social security number of any: (1) applicant for a professional license, commercial driver's license or occupational license be recorded on the application; (2) applicant for a marriage license be collected and placed in the records maintained by the county clerk; (3) person who is subject to a divorce decree, support order or paternity determination or acknowledgment be placed in the records relating to the matter; and (4) person who has died be placed in the records relating to the death and be recorded on the death certificate. B. The collection and use of social security numbers shall be made available to the human services department [health care authority department] for use in child support enforcement. History: Laws 1997, ch. 237, § 15; 2013, ch. 144, § 1. ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law. Laws 2023, ch. 205, § 16 provided that references to the human services department shall be deemed to be references to the health care authority department. y the compiler and is not part of the law. Laws 2023, ch. 205, § 16 provided that references to the human services department shall be deemed to be references to the health care authority department. The 2013 amendment, effective June 14, 2013, required counties to obtain social security numbers from applicants for marriage licenses; in Subsection A, in the introductory sentence, at the beginning of the sentence, added 'For applicants or persons who have been assigned a social security number', in Paragraph (1), after 'occupational license', deleted 'or marriage license', and added Paragraph (2); and in Subsection B, after 'made available to the' deleted 'state Title IV-D agency' and added 'human services department'.
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