[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 83 (Wednesday, May 25, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3191-S3192]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4146. Mr. CASSIDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle I of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1097. 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 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 executive agency to--
       (A) establish a comprehensive inventory, including 80 
     percent of software license

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     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 decision making 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 fiscal year thereafter through fiscal year 2018, 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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