Paperwork Assistance Act

Paperwork Assistance Act - Requires a federal agency to inform any person receiving a collection of information from the agency of the agency's contact information, including a website and a telephone number, by which a person may obtain a specific contact person responsible for answering questions about the information collection and other information to assist in responding to the information collection.

Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to include in the Director's annual report on information policy activities: (1) the status of implementation by agencies of the requirements of this Act; and (2) a description of how each agency has responded to complaints related to the agency's compliance with such requirements.

Makes this Act's contact information requirements applicable to new or revised collections of information approved by the Director beginning one year after enactment.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6068 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6068

   To amend title 44, United States Code, to require each agency to 
    include contact information for the agency in its collection of 
                              information.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 30, 2010

 Ms. Loretta Sanchez of California (for herself and Mr. Hall of Texas) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                    Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 44, United States Code, to require each agency to 
    include contact information for the agency in its collection of 
                              information.

    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 ``Paperwork Assistance Act''.

SEC. 2. AGENCY CONTACT INFORMATION REQUIREMENT.

    Section 3506(c)(1)(B)(iii) of title 44, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in subclause (IV) by striking ``and'' at the end; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                                    ``(VI) contact information for the 
                                agency, including a website and a 
                                telephone number, by which a person may 
                                obtain a specific contact person 
                                responsible for answering questions 
                                about the information collection and 
                                other information to assist in 
                                responding to the information 
                                collection; and''.

SEC. 3. REPORT BY THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET.

    The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall include 
in the report required by section 3514(a)(1)(B) of title 44, United 
States Code, covering fiscal year 2012 the following:
            (1) The status of implementation by agencies of the 
        requirement in section 3506(c)(1)(B)(iii)(VI) of such title 44, 
        as added by section 2 of this Act.
            (2) A description of how each agency has responded to 
        complaints made to the agency related to the agency's 
        compliance with such requirement.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by section 2 shall apply to new or revised 
collections of information approved by the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget beginning 1 year after the date of enactment of 
this Act.
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