[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2178 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2178

     To require the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and 
Efficiency to make open recommendations of Inspectors General publicly 
                   available, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 30, 2017

  Ms. Heitkamp (for herself and Mrs. Ernst) 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 the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and 
Efficiency to make open recommendations of Inspectors General publicly 
                   available, 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 ``Inspector General Recommendation 
Transparency Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. INSPECTOR GENERAL OPEN RECOMMENDATIONS DATABASE.

    Section 11(c) of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) Open recommendations database.--
                    ``(A) Definitions.--In this paragraph--
                            ``(i) the term `designated Federal entity' 
                        has the meaning given the term in section 
                        8G(a)(2); and
                            ``(ii) the term `open recommendation' means 
                        a recommendation--
                                    ``(I) issued by an Inspector 
                                General of an establishment or 
                                designated Federal entity and made 
                                publicly available; and
                                    ``(II) that has not been adopted or 
                                implemented by the establishment or 
                                designated Federal entity during the 1-
                                year period following the date on which 
                                the recommendation was issued.
                    ``(B) Establishment of database.--The Council shall 
                establish and operate a publicly available database 
                that--
                            ``(i) is accessible via the website of the 
                        Council; and
                            ``(ii) includes the information on open 
                        recommendations submitted by each Inspector 
                        General of an establishment or designated 
                        Federal entity under subparagraph (C).
                    ``(C) Contents.--Not later than 1 year after the 
                first semiannual reporting deadline described in 
                section 5(a) that occurs after the date of enactment of 
                this paragraph, and not less frequently than every 6 
                months thereafter, each Inspector General of an 
                establishment or designated Federal entity shall submit 
                to the Council, in a manner determined by the Council, 
                the status and disposition of each open recommendation 
                of the establishment or designated Federal entity, 
                which shall include--
                            ``(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 each open 
                        recommendation;
                            ``(vi) the date on which each open 
                        recommendation was submitted in final form to 
                        the head of the establishment or designated 
                        Federal entity;
                            ``(vii) the current status of each open 
                        recommendation, such as whether the 
                        recommendation remains open or has been 
                        partially implemented, or if the establishment 
                        or designated Federal entity 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;
                            ``(ix) if available, any response from the 
                        establishment or designated Federal entity 
                        relating to why the recommendation remains 
                        open; and
                            ``(x) any other information as determined 
                        by the Council.''.
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