[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4904 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4904

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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 12, 2016

 Mr. Cartwright (for himself, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Connolly, Mr. 
Ted Lieu of California, Ms. Duckworth, and Mr. Cummings) 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 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.
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