Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to establish and maintain a single website accessible by the public for obtaining electronic copies of congressionally mandated reports.
Requires the head of each federal agency to provide OMB with an electronic copy of each such report.
[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6026 Introduced in House (IH)]
111th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6026
To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to
establish and maintain a single website accessible to the public that
allows the public to obtain electronic copies of congressionally
mandated reports.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 30, 2010
Mr. Driehaus (for himself, Mr. Towns, and Mr. Clay) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform
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A BILL
To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to
establish and maintain a single website accessible to the public that
allows the public to obtain electronic copies of congressionally
mandated reports.
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 ``Access to Congressionally Mandated
Reports Act''.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF WEBSITE FOR CONGRESSIONALLY MANDATED REPORTS.
(a) Requirement To Establish Website.--Not later than one year
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office
of Management and Budget shall establish and maintain a single website
accessible by the public that allows the public to obtain electronic
copies of congressionally mandated reports.
(b) Content and Function.--The Director shall ensure that the
website required under subsection (a), with respect to each
congressionally mandated report--
(1) provides a citation to the statute mandating the
report;
(2) provides an electronic copy of the report, including
the transmittal letter associated with the report, through a
hyperlink or machine readable file (or through such other
successor electronic means as may be available);
(3) enables the report to be retrieved, to the extent
practicable, through searches based on--
(A) the title of the report;
(B) the reporting agency;
(C) the date of publication;
(D) the congressional committee receiving the
report, if applicable;
(E) subject tags;
(F) the serial number or other number for the
report, if applicable;
(G) the statute or regulation requiring the report;
(H) key words; and
(I) any other relevant information specified by the
Director;
(4) provides a means for members of the public to request
e-mail notification when a report becomes available on the
website; and
(5) enables access to any such report within 30 days after
its submission to Congress.
(c) Free Access.--The Director may not charge a fee for access to
the website required under subsection (a).
(d) Upgrade Capability.--The website required under subsection (a)
shall be capable of being continually upgraded to be of maximum use as
technology and content evolve over time.
SEC. 3. AGENCY RESPONSIBILITIES.
(a) Submission of Electronic Copies of Reports.--
(1) In general.--The head of each agency shall provide to
the Office of Management and Budget an electronic copy of each
congressionally mandated report. The copy shall be provided
through a hyperlink or machine readable file (or through such
other successor electronic means as may be available).
(2) Relationship to other submissions to omb.--The
electronic copy of a congressionally mandated report provided
under paragraph (1) shall be solely for purposes of posting on
the website established under section 2 and not for purposes of
review by the Office of Management and Budget. This subsection
shall not be construed as affecting any other requirement
otherwise applicable to an agency or report relating to review
by the Office.
(b) Guidance.--Not later than eight months after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and
Budget shall issue guidance to agencies on the implementation of this
Act.
SEC. 4. RELATIONSHIP TO FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT.
Nothing in this Act shall be construed to require the disclosure of
information or records that are exempt from disclosure under section
552 of title 5, United States Code. If any information in a
congressionally mandated report may not be publicly released under
section 552(b) of title 5, United States Code, the agency concerned
shall omit from the website established under section 2 only the
portion of the report containing that information and shall identify
the exemption under which the omission is made.
SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) Agency.--The term ``agency'' means an Executive agency
as defined by section 105 of title 5, United States Code, but
does not include the Government Accountability Office.
(2) Congressionally mandated report.--The term
``congressionally mandated report'' means a report that is
required by statute to be submitted to Congress.
SEC. 6. IMPLEMENTATION.
Except as provided in section 3(b), this Act shall be implemented
not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act and
shall apply with respect to congressionally mandated reports submitted
to Congress on or after the date occurring one year after such date of
enactment.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
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