[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1447 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1447

To provide for the coordinated end-to-end testing and disclosure of the 
 readiness of certain Federal and non-Federal computer systems for the 
                      year 2000 computer problem.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 15, 1999

  Mr. Ford (for himself, Mr. Rangel, Mr. Cummings, Mrs. Thurman, Mr. 
Meeks of New York, Mr. Underwood, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, and Ms. 
 Millender-McDonald) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                      to the Committee on Science

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the coordinated end-to-end testing and disclosure of the 
 readiness of certain Federal and non-Federal computer systems for the 
                      year 2000 computer problem.

    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 ``National Y2K Test Day Act''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL TEST DAY.

    All Federal agencies that have responsibilities with respect to 
health, safety, payments to individuals, delivery of services to 
consumers, and national defense issues shall participate, and all 
State, local, or private agencies or organizations having 
responsibilities with respect to those issues shall be encouraged to 
participate, in a National Y2K Test Day on July 1, 1999, to test the 
readiness of mission critical computer systems in those areas for 
January 1, 2000, and to provide advance notice of problems that may 
occur on such day with such computer systems, with the interoperation 
of such computer systems, or both.

SEC. 3. NATIONAL DISCLOSURE DAY.

    All Federal agencies that have responsibilities with respect to 
health, safety, payments to individuals, delivery of services to 
consumers, and national defense issues shall participate, and all 
State, local, or private agencies or organizations having 
responsibilities with respect to those issues shall be encouraged to 
participate, in a National Y2K Disclosure Day on August 16, 1999, to 
disclose the readiness of mission critical computer systems in those 
areas for January 1, 2000, and to disclose advance notice of problems 
that may occur on such day with such computer systems, with the 
interoperation of such computer systems, or both.
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