State of South Dakota  
EIGHTY-THIRD SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 2008  

715P0494   SENATE BILL   NO.   81  

Introduced by:     Senators Jerstad, Kloucek, Nesselhuf, and Sutton and Representatives Halverson, Cutler, Gassman, Krebs, Lucas, Nygaard, Rounds, and Thompson
 

         FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to  allow persons to place a security freeze on their credit reports without first being victims of identity theft.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
     Section 1.  That § 54-15-3 be amended to read as follows:
     54-15-3.   Any person who is a victim of identity theft and has submitted a valid police report to a consumer reporting agency consumer may elect to place a security freeze on that person's consumer's report by making a request in writing by certified mail to a consumer reporting agency at an address designated by the consumer reporting agency to receive such requests. This section does not prevent a consumer reporting agency from advising a third party that a security freeze is in effect with respect to the consumer's credit report.
     Section 2.  That § 54-15-1 be repealed.
     54-15-1.   For purposes of this chapter, a victim of identity theft is a victim of a crime as defined in § 22-40-8.

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