Law / United States / 
Rhode Island
Social security numbers and discount cards
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Prohibition
- Audit expectation
- none
As of .
What it requires
- If you offer discount cards for purchases made at any business you maintain, do not require a consumer of goods who applies for a discount card to furnish all or part of a social security number as a condition precedent to the application.
- Do not sell or give information obtained on a discount card application, or by use of a discount card, to any other person, firm, corporation or business entity, except that you may disclose it to your affiliates, to service providers that perform services for you, or as required by law, and may transfer it in connection with the sale of your business operations.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Rhode Island Attorney General, who has the duty to enforce and restrain violations of the sections of chapter 13 of title 6 (section 6-13-6).
Settledness
- As of
What this law does
Section 6-13-19 of the Rhode Island General Laws bars a person, firm, corporation or other business entity that offers discount cards for purchases made at any business it maintains from requiring a consumer of goods who applies for a discount card to furnish all or part of a social security number as a condition precedent to the application.
Section 6-13-19 of the Rhode Island General Laws bars the offeror from selling or giving to any other person, firm, corporation or business entity information obtained on the application or by use of a discount card, except that the offeror may disclose it to its affiliates, to service providers that perform services for it, or as required by law, and may transfer it in connection with the sale of its business operations.
Section 6-13-6 of the Rhode Island General Laws makes it the duty of the attorney general to enforce and restrain violations of the sections of chapter 13 of title 6, and gives the superior court jurisdiction to enjoin an act the chapter forbids on the complaint of any person.
As enacted by Public Law 2004, chapter 311, section 6-13-19 barred a business entity that offers discount cards from requiring the applicant's social security number as a condition precedent to the application, and barred the sale or gift of any information obtained on the application or by use of a discount card to any other person, firm, corporation or business entity, with no exceptions.
Public Law 2004, chapter 311 (H 7066 as amended), enacted , added section 6-13-19 to chapter 13 of title 6. Section 2 of the 2004 act on unfair sales practices provides that the act takes effect upon passage. Section 6-13-19 of the Rhode Island General Laws was enacted by Public Law 2004, chapter 311, section 1, and its history note lists later amendments through Public Law 2014, chapter 528.
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