[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4904 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.4904

                     One Hundred Fourteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
           the fourth day of January, two thousand and sixteen


                                 An Act


 
To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to issue 
   a directive on the management of software licenses, and for other 
                                purposes.

    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 ``Making Electronic Government 
Accountable By Yielding Tangible Efficiencies Act of 2016'' or the 
``MEGABYTE Act of 2016''.
SEC. 2. OMB DIRECTIVE ON MANAGEMENT OF SOFTWARE LICENSES.
    (a) Definition.--In this section--
        (1) the term ``Director'' means the Director of the Office of 
    Management and Budget; and
        (2) the term ``executive agency'' has the meaning given that 
    term in section 105 of title 5, United States Code.
    (b) OMB Directive.--The Director shall issue a directive to require 
the Chief Information Officer of each executive agency to develop a 
comprehensive software licensing policy, which shall--
        (1) identify clear roles, responsibilities, and central 
    oversight authority within the executive agency for managing 
    enterprise software license agreements and commercial software 
    licenses; and
        (2) require the Chief Information Officer of each executive 
    agency to--
            (A) establish a comprehensive inventory, including 80 
        percent of software license spending and enterprise licenses in 
        the executive agency, by identifying and collecting information 
        about software license agreements using automated discovery and 
        inventory tools;
            (B) regularly track and maintain software licenses to 
        assist the executive agency in implementing decisions 
        throughout the software license management life cycle;
            (C) analyze software usage and other data to make cost-
        effective decisions;
            (D) provide training relevant to software license 
        management;
            (E) establish goals and objectives of the software license 
        management program of the executive agency; and
            (F) consider the software license management life cycle 
        phases, including the requisition, reception, deployment and 
        maintenance, retirement, and disposal phases, to implement 
        effective decisionmaking and incorporate existing standards, 
        processes, and metrics.
    (c) Report on Software License Management.--
        (1) In general.--Beginning in the first fiscal year beginning 
    after the date of enactment of this Act, and in each of the 
    following 5 fiscal years, the Chief Information Officer of each 
    executive agency shall submit to the Director a report on the 
    financial savings or avoidance of spending that resulted from 
    improved software license management.
        (2) Availability.--The Director shall make each report 
    submitted under paragraph (1) publically available.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.