Inspector General Mandates Reporting Act of 2015

Inspector General Mandates Reporting Act of 2015

(Sec. 2) This bill requires each Office of Inspector General to submit to the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency a report which: (1) shall include a list of each reporting requirement for such Office, and (2) may include a list of reporting requirements that such Office recommends should be modified or repealed.

Within 60 days after receiving such report, the Council shall submit to Congress a report which: (1) shall include a list of reporting requirements that are common to more than one Office of Inspector General and a list of reporting requirements that are unique to each Office, and (2) may include recommendations for reporting requirements that should be modified or repealed.

These reports shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified index.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2128 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2128

     To require the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and 
    Efficiency to submit to Congress a report on Inspector General 
                               mandates.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 5, 2015

  Mr. Sasse (for himself and Mrs. McCaskill) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland 
                   Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
     To require the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and 
    Efficiency to submit to Congress a report on Inspector General 
                               mandates.

    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 ``Inspector General Mandates Reporting 
Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS OF INSPECTORS GENERAL.

    (a) Definition.--In this section, the term ``reporting 
requirement'' means a report that an Office of Inspector General is 
required to complete under the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. 
App.) or any other provision of law.
    (b) Report by Inspectors General to CIGIE.--Not later than 60 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act, each Office of Inspector 
General shall submit to the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity 
and Efficiency a report, which--
            (1) shall include a list of each reporting requirement for 
        the Office of Inspector General; and
            (2) may include a list of each reporting requirement that 
        the Office of Inspector General recommends should be modified 
        or repealed.
    (c) Report by CIGIE to Congress.--Not later than 60 days after the 
date on which the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and 
Efficiency receives the reports required to be submitted under 
subsection (a), the Council shall submit to Congress a report, which--
            (1) shall include--
                    (A) a list of each reporting requirement that is 
                common to more than 1 Office of Inspector General; and
                    (B) a list, by Office of Inspector General, of each 
                reporting requirement that is unique to that Office of 
                Inspector General; and
            (2) may include recommendations for reporting requirements 
        that should be modified or repealed.
    (d) Form.--Each report submitted under this section shall be in 
unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
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