[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2474 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2474

 To amend title 10, United States Code, to improve the achievement of 
   cost-effectiveness results from the decisionmaking on selections 
between public workforces and private workforces for the performance of 
                   a Department of Defense function.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 26, 2000

Ms. Snowe (for herself and Mr. Sessions) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 10, United States Code, to improve the achievement of 
   cost-effectiveness results from the decisionmaking on selections 
between public workforces and private workforces for the performance of 
                   a Department of Defense function.

    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 ``Department of Defense Cost 
Management and Accountability Act of 2000''.

SEC. 2. MONITORING OF VALUE OF PERFORMANCE OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
              FUNCTIONS BY WORKFORCES SELECTED FROM BETWEEN PUBLIC AND 
              PRIVATE WORKFORCES.

    (a) Requirement for System.--Chapter 146 of title 10, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 2475. Public-private workforce selections: system for monitoring 
              value
    ``(a) System for Monitoring Performance.--(1) The Secretary of 
Defense shall establish a system for monitoring the performance of 
functions of the Department of Defense that--
            ``(A) are performed by 50 or more employees of the 
        department; and
            ``(B) have been subjected to a workforce review.
    ``(2) In this section, the term `workforce review', with respect to 
a function, is a review to determine whether the function should be 
performed by a workforce composed of Federal Government employees or by 
a private sector workforce, and includes any review for that purpose 
that is carried out under, or is associated with, the following:
            ``(A) Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76.
            ``(B) A strategic sourcing.
            ``(C) A base closure or realignment.
            ``(D) Any other reorganization or reengineering of an 
        organization.
    ``(b) Performance Measurements.--The system for monitoring the 
performance of a function shall provide for the measurement of the 
costs and benefits resulting from the selection of one workforce over 
the other workforce pursuant to a workforce review, as follows:
            ``(1) The costs incurred.
            ``(2) The savings derived.
            ``(3) The value of the performance by the selected 
        workforce measured against the costs of the performance of that 
        function by the workforce performing the function as of the 
        beginning of the workforce review, as the workforce then 
        performing the function was organized.
    ``(c) Annual Report.--The Secretary shall submit to Congress, not 
later than February 1 of each fiscal year, a report on the measurable 
value of the performance during the preceding fiscal year of the 
functions that have been subjected to a workforce review, as determined 
under the monitoring system established under subsection (a). The 
report shall display the findings separately for each of the armed 
forces and for each Defense Agency.
    ``(d) Consideration in Preparation of Future-Years Defense 
Program.--In preparing the future-years defense program under section 
221 of this title, the Secretary of Defense shall, for the fiscal years 
covered by the program, estimate and take into account the costs to be 
incurred and the savings to be derived from the performance of 
functions by workforces selected in workforce reviews. The Secretary 
shall consider the results of the monitoring under this section in 
making the estimates.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following:

``2475. Public-private workforce selections: system for monitoring 
                            value.''.

SEC. 3. ADVANCE CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION OF CONVERSIONS.

    (a) Certification of Nonconsideration of Personnel Limitations.--
Paragraph (1) of section 2461(c) of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (C), (D), and (E) as 
        subparagraphs (D), (F) and (G); and
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (B), the following new 
        subparagraph (C):
            ``(C) The Secretary's certification that the factors 
        considered in the examinations performed under subsection 
        (b)(3), and in the making of the decision to change 
        performance, did not include any predetermined personnel 
        constraint or limitation in terms of man years, end strength, 
        full-time equivalent positions, or maximum number of 
        employees.''.
    (b) Submission of Local Economic Impact Study.--Such paragraph (1), 
as amended by subsection (a), is further amended by inserting after 
subparagraph (D) the following new subparagraph (E):
            ``(E) A statement of the potential economic effect of the 
        change on each affected local community, as determined in the 
        examination under subsection (b)(3)(B)(ii).''.
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