[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3109 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3109

  To require Inspectors General to make open recommendations publicly 
                               available.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 29, 2016

 Ms. Heitkamp (for herself and Mr. Lankford) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland 
                   Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require Inspectors General to make open recommendations publicly 
                               available.

    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 ``Inspector General Recommendation 
Transparency Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. INSPECTOR GENERAL OPEN RECOMMENDATIONS.

    Section 5 of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (f) as subsection (g); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (e) the following:
    ``(f)(1) Not later than 1 year after the first semiannual reporting 
deadline described in subsection (a) that occurs after the date of 
enactment of this subsection, each Inspector General shall make 
available on the website of the Office of the Inspector General a list 
of any open recommendations for the establishment that have been open 
for more than 1 year.
    ``(2) The list required under paragraph shall--
            ``(A) include, at a minimum--
                    ``(i) the number of recommendations issued by the 
                Inspector General for the fiscal year;
                    ``(ii) the number of recommendations described in 
                clause (i) that are open recommendations;
                    ``(iii) the title of each report in which an open 
                recommendation was issued;
                    ``(iv) the assigned number of each open 
                recommendation, as designated within a report described 
                in clause (iii);
                    ``(v) a short description of the open 
                recommendation;
                    ``(vi) the date on which the open recommendation 
                was first issued;
                    ``(vii) the current status of the open 
                recommendation, such as whether the recommendation 
                remains open or has been partially implemented, or if 
                the agency has expressed that the recommendation is 
                expected to be implemented soon;
                    ``(viii) if available, any comments of the 
                Inspector General relating to why the recommendation 
                remains open; and
                    ``(ix) if available, any response from the 
                establishment relating to why the recommendation 
                remains open; and
            ``(B) be updated by the Inspector General not less 
        frequently than once every 6 months.
    ``(3) In this subsection, the term `open recommendation' means a 
recommendation issued by an Inspector General and made publicly 
available, in accordance with section 8M(b)(1)(A), that has not been 
adopted or implemented by the establishment of the Inspector 
General.''.
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