[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2883 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2883

 To amend provisions of law enacted by the Government Performance and 
   Results Act of 1993 to improve Federal agency strategic plans and 
                          performance reports.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 7, 1997

   Mr. Burton of Indiana (for himself, Mr. Armey, Mr. Horn, and Mr. 
  Sessions) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Government Reform and Oversight

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend provisions of law enacted by the Government Performance and 
   Results Act of 1993 to improve Federal agency strategic plans and 
                          performance 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 ``Government Performance and Results 
Act Technical Amendments of 1997''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS RELATING TO STRATEGIC PLANS.

    (a) Content of Strategic Plans.--Section 306(a) of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting before the semicolon ``, 
        that is explicitly linked to the statutory authorities'';
            (2) in paragraph (2), by inserting before the semicolon ``, 
        that are explicitly linked to the statutory authorities of the 
        agency''; and
            (3) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (5), by 
        striking the period at the end of paragraph (6) and inserting a 
        semicolon, and by adding at the end the following new 
        paragraphs:
            ``(7) a specific identification of any agency functions and 
        programs that are similar to those of more than one component 
        of the agency or those of other agencies, and an explanation of 
        coordination and other efforts the agency has undertaken within 
        the agency or with other agencies to ensure that such similar 
        functions and programs are subject to complementary goals, 
        strategies, and performance measures;
            ``(8) a description of any major management problems 
        (including but not limited to programs and activities at high 
        risk for waste, abuse, or mismanagement) affecting the agency 
        that have been documented by the inspector general of the 
        agency (or a comparable official, if the agency has no 
        inspector general), the General Accounting Office, and others, 
        and specific goals, strategies, and performance measures to 
        resolve those problems; and
            ``(9) an assessment by the head of the agency, together 
        with a separate assessment by the agency's inspector general of 
        the agency (or a comparable official, if the agency has no 
        inspector general), of the adequacy and reliability of the data 
        sources and information and accounting systems of the agency to 
        support its strategic plans under this section and performance 
        plans and reports under sections 1115 and 1116 (respectively) 
        of title 31, and, to the extent that material data or system 
        inadequacies exist, an explanation of how the agency will 
        resolve them.''.
    (b) Resubmission of Agency Strategic Plans.--Section 306 of title 
5, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by striking ``submitted,'' and all 
        that follows through the end of the subsection and inserting 
        the following: ``submitted. The strategic plan shall be 
        updated, revised, and resubmitted to the Director of the Office 
        of Management and Budget and the Congress by not later than 
        September 30 of 1998 and of every third year thereafter.''; and
            (2) in subsection (d), by inserting ``and updating'' after 
        ``developing'', and by adding at the end thereof: ``The agency 
        head shall provide promptly to any committee or subcommittee of 
        the Congress any draft versions of a plan or other information 
        pertinent to a plan that the committee or subcommittee 
        requests.''.
    (c) Format for Strategic Plans.--Section 306 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended by redesignating subsection (f) as subsection 
(g), and by inserting after subsection (e) the following new 
subsection:
    ``(f)(1) The strategic plan shall be a single document that covers 
the agency as a whole and addresses each of the elements required by 
this section on an agencywide basis. The head of an agency shall format 
the strategic plans of the agency in a manner that clearly demonstrates 
the linkages among the elements of the plan.
    ``(2)(A) The head of each executive department shall submit with 
the departmentwide strategic plan a separate component strategic plan 
for each of the major mission-related components of the department. 
Such a component strategic plan shall address each of the elements 
required by this section.
    ``(B) The head of an agency that is not an executive department 
shall submit separate component plans in accordance with subparagraph 
(A) to the extent that doing so would, in the judgment of the head of 
the agency, materially enhance the usefulness of the strategic plan of 
the agency.''.

 SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS RELATING TO PERFORMANCE REPORTS.

    (a) Inspector General Audits of Performance Reports.--Section 
1116(b) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following new paragraph:
    ``(3) The inspector general of the agency (or a comparable 
official, if the agency has no inspector general) shall audit each 
program performance report under this section, and shall report to the 
Congress on the results of each such audit no later than 45 days after 
submission of the performance report.''.
    (b) Governmentwide Program Performance Reports.--Section 1116 of 
title 31, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (f) as subsection (g); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (e) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(f)(1) No later than March 31, 2000, and no later than March 31 
of each year thereafter, the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget shall prepare and submit to the Congress an integrated Federal 
Government performance report for the previous fiscal year.
    ``(2) In addition to such other content as the Director determines 
to be appropriate, each report shall include actual results and 
accomplishments under the Federal Government performance plan required 
by section 1105(a)(29) of this title for the fiscal year covered by the 
report.''.
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