[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3921 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 3921


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 10, 2002

  Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental 
                                Affairs

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                                 AN ACT


 
To amend the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 to extend until January 1, 2005, 
a program applying simplified procedures to the acquisition of certain 
 commercial items, and to require the Comptroller General to submit to 
     Congress a report regarding the effectiveness of such program.

    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 ``Acquisition Streamlining Improvement 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF PROGRAM APPLYING SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURES TO CERTAIN 
              COMMERCIAL ITEMS; REPORT ON PROGRAM.

    Section 4202 of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 (divisions D and E of 
Public Law 104-106; 110 Stat. 652; 10 U.S.C. 2304 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (e), by striking ``January 1, 2003'' and 
        inserting ``January 1, 2005''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(f) Report.--Not later than March 1, 2004, the Comptroller 
General shall submit to Congress a report on--
            ``(1) the effectiveness of the implementation of the 
        provisions enacted by this section;
            ``(2) the extent to which the amount of time required to 
        award contracts and the administrative costs associated with 
        such contracts were reduced as a result of such implementation;
            ``(3) the extent to which prices under such contracts 
        reflected the best value; and
            ``(4) any recommendations for improving the effectiveness 
        of the implementation of the provisions enacted by this 
        section.''.

            Passed the House of Representatives April 9, 2002.

            Attest:

                                                 JEFF TRANDAHL,

                                                                 Clerk.