---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1306b"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1306b"
heading: "State data exchanges"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1306b"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Social Security"
  - "Subchapter XI — General Provisions, Peer Review, and Administrative Simplification"
  - "Part A — General Provisions"
---

# §1306b. State data exchanges


Whenever the Commissioner of [Social](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=20) Security requests information from a [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) 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](/usc/42/1320d.md?p=7) of the Commissioner promulgated pursuant to [section 1306 of this title](/usc/42/1306.md) or any other Federal law for the use, safeguarding, and disclosure of information are deemed to meet any [standards](/usc/42/1320d.md?p=7) of the [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) that would otherwise apply to the disclosure of information by the [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) to the Commissioner.


## Source credit

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

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### 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.