Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 4294) to amend the Financial Stability Act of 2010 to provide a criminal penalty for unauthorized disclosures of certain individually identifiable information by officers or employees of a Federal department or agency, as amended. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 4294 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Prevention of Private Information Dissemination Act of 2017''. SEC. 2. CRIMINAL PENALTY FOR UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURES. Section 165 of the Financial Stability Act of 2010 (12 U.S.C. 5365) is amended by adding at the end the following: ``(l) Criminal Penalty for Unauthorized Disclosures.-- Section 552a(i)(1) of title 5, United States Code, shall apply to a determination made under subsection (d) or (i) based on individually identifiable information submitted pursuant to the requirements of this section to the same extent as such section 552a(i)(1) applies to agency records which contain individually identifiable information the disclosure of which is prohibited by such section 552a or by rules or regulations established thereunder.''. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Hill) and the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Ellison) each will control 20 minutes.…
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