3.0.0 960 2023-01-11T13:36:55Z 2023-01-11T13:36:55Z Senate S 2017-04-27 115 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-04-27T15:36:01Z 2017-04-27 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. IntroReferral 2017-04-27 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress P000595 Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI] Gary Peters D MI N G000562 Sen. Gardner, Cory [R-CO] Cory Gardner R CO 2017-04-27 True H001076 Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH] Maggie Hassan D NH 2017-06-13 False D000618 Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT] Steve Daines R MT 2017-06-13 False Government Operations and Politics Administrative law and regulatory procedures Digital media Government information and archives Government Operations and Politics 00 2017-04-27 Introduced in Senate 2018-01-18T20:45:26Z Preserving Data in Government Act of 2017

This bill requires that any open government data that is made available to the public for at least 90 consecutive days must: (1) remain machine-readable, available in an open format, and part of the worldwide public domain or, if necessary, be published with an open license; and (2) not be altered in such a way as to decrease its machine-readable nature.

It shall not be a violation of such requirement to alter: (1) the digital location or format of open government data for routine asset maintenance or long-term archiving if such alteration does not decrease the open public accessibility or the machine-readable nature of the data, or (2) the contents of such data to update it or correct an error. Any substantial alteration of the data's contents shall be recorded in a log that is made available to the public in an open format along with the data.

An agency may remove such data from public availability if:

  • the agency determines that the data is too costly to maintain or does not provide sufficient value to the public,
  • the agency publishes specified notice at least six months in advance of such removal, and
  • the data is available for download on the worldwide public domain for at least six months before such removal.

This bill shall not apply to such data that is required to be removed from public availability or altered under another provision of law.

]]> Preserving Data in Government Act of 2017 Display Title Preserving Data in Government Act of 2017 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title 44, United States Code, to protect open, machine-readable databases. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Preserving Data in Government Act of 2017 Introduced in Senate 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s960is/xml/BILLS-115s960is.xml 2017-04-27 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.