[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6026 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6026

   To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to 
 establish and maintain a single website accessible to the public that 
   allows the public to obtain electronic copies of congressionally 
                           mandated reports.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 30, 2010

  Mr. Driehaus (for himself, Mr. Towns, and Mr. Clay) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
                           Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to 
 establish and maintain a single website accessible to the public that 
   allows the public to obtain electronic copies of congressionally 
                           mandated 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 ``Access to Congressionally Mandated 
Reports Act''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF WEBSITE FOR CONGRESSIONALLY MANDATED REPORTS.

    (a) Requirement To Establish Website.--Not later than one year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office 
of Management and Budget shall establish and maintain a single website 
accessible by the public that allows the public to obtain electronic 
copies of congressionally mandated reports.
    (b) Content and Function.--The Director shall ensure that the 
website required under subsection (a), with respect to each 
congressionally mandated report--
            (1) provides a citation to the statute mandating the 
        report;
            (2) provides an electronic copy of the report, including 
        the transmittal letter associated with the report, through a 
        hyperlink or machine readable file (or through such other 
        successor electronic means as may be available);
            (3) enables the report to be retrieved, to the extent 
        practicable, through searches based on--
                    (A) the title of the report;
                    (B) the reporting agency;
                    (C) the date of publication;
                    (D) the congressional committee receiving the 
                report, if applicable;
                    (E) subject tags;
                    (F) the serial number or other number for the 
                report, if applicable;
                    (G) the statute or regulation requiring the report;
                    (H) key words; and
                    (I) any other relevant information specified by the 
                Director;
            (4) provides a means for members of the public to request 
        e-mail notification when a report becomes available on the 
        website; and
            (5) enables access to any such report within 30 days after 
        its submission to Congress.
    (c) Free Access.--The Director may not charge a fee for access to 
the website required under subsection (a).
    (d) Upgrade Capability.--The website required under subsection (a) 
shall be capable of being continually upgraded to be of maximum use as 
technology and content evolve over time.

SEC. 3. AGENCY RESPONSIBILITIES.

    (a) Submission of Electronic Copies of Reports.--
            (1) In general.--The head of each agency shall provide to 
        the Office of Management and Budget an electronic copy of each 
        congressionally mandated report. The copy shall be provided 
        through a hyperlink or machine readable file (or through such 
        other successor electronic means as may be available).
            (2) Relationship to other submissions to omb.--The 
        electronic copy of a congressionally mandated report provided 
        under paragraph (1) shall be solely for purposes of posting on 
        the website established under section 2 and not for purposes of 
        review by the Office of Management and Budget. This subsection 
        shall not be construed as affecting any other requirement 
        otherwise applicable to an agency or report relating to review 
        by the Office.
    (b) Guidance.--Not later than eight months after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget shall issue guidance to agencies on the implementation of this 
Act.

SEC. 4. RELATIONSHIP TO FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT.

    Nothing in this Act shall be construed to require the disclosure of 
information or records that are exempt from disclosure under section 
552 of title 5, United States Code. If any information in a 
congressionally mandated report may not be publicly released under 
section 552(b) of title 5, United States Code, the agency concerned 
shall omit from the website established under section 2 only the 
portion of the report containing that information and shall identify 
the exemption under which the omission is made.

SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Agency.--The term ``agency'' means an Executive agency 
        as defined by section 105 of title 5, United States Code, but 
        does not include the Government Accountability Office.
            (2) Congressionally mandated report.--The term 
        ``congressionally mandated report'' means a report that is 
        required by statute to be submitted to Congress.

SEC. 6. IMPLEMENTATION.

    Except as provided in section 3(b), this Act shall be implemented 
not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act and 
shall apply with respect to congressionally mandated reports submitted 
to Congress on or after the date occurring one year after such date of 
enactment.
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