3.0.0 4500 2023-01-11T13:45:17Z 2023-01-11T13:45:17Z Senate S 2020-08-06 116 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-08-06T21:28:33Z 2020-08-06 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. IntroReferral 2020-08-06 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 2020-08-06 True Government Operations and Politics Administrative law and regulatory procedures Digital media Government information and archives Government Operations and Politics 00 2020-08-06 Introduced in Senate 2022-03-15T13:29:35Z Preserving Data in Government Act of 2020

This bill requires federal agencies to preserve public access to existing open datasets and prevent the removal of existing datasets without public notice.

Specifically, the bill requires that any open government data asset that is made available to the public for at least 90 consecutive days (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 any open government data asset 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 asset to update it or correct an error. Any substantial alteration of the data asset's contents shall be recorded in a log that is made available to the public.

An agency may remove such data asset from public availability under specified circumstances, such as if the agency determines that the data asset is too costly to maintain or does not provide sufficient value to the public.

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

]]> Preserving Data in Government Act of 2020 Display Title Preserving Data in Government Act of 2020 Short Title(s) as Introduced Preserving Data in Government Act of 2020 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title 44, United States Code, to preserve and protect open Government data assets. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s4500is/xml/BILLS-116s4500is.xml 2020-08-06 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.