114-HR4904 MEGABYTE Act

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Legislation
Title 114-HR4904 MEGABYTE Act
Congress 114
Sponsor Rep. Cartwright, Matt (D-PA-17)
Committee(s) House - Oversight and Government Reform, Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Status Enacted
Keywords McCarthy
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Sec. 2

This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue a directive to require the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of each executive agency to develop a comprehensive software licensing policy, which shall: (1) require the CIO of each agency to establish a comprehensive inventory of software licenses; (2) track and maintain such licenses; (3) analyze software usage to make cost-effective decisions; (4) provide software license management training; (5) establish goals and objectives of the agency's software license management program; and (6) consider the software license management life cycle phases to implement effective decision making and incorporate existing standards, processes, and metrics.

The CIO of each executive agency must report to the OMB, beginning in the first fiscal year after this Act's enactment and in each of the following five fiscal years, on the savings from improved software license management.

Bill Text

[114th Congress Public Law 210] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


Page 130 STAT. 824

Public Law 114-210 114th Congress

                                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. <<NOTE: July 29, 2016 -  [H.R. 4904]>> 
   Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 

United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Making Electronic Government Accountable By Yielding Tangible Efficiencies Act of 2016. 40 USC 11302 note.>> 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) <<NOTE: Inventory.>>  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) <<NOTE: Analyze.>>  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.

Page 130 STAT. 825

   (c) Report on Software License Management.--
           (1) <<NOTE: Effective date. Deadline.>>  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) <<NOTE: Public information.>>  Availability.--The 
       Director shall make each report submitted under paragraph (1) 
       publically available.
   Approved July 29, 2016.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 4904 (S. 2340):


HOUSE REPORTS: No. 114-587 (Comm. on Oversight and Government Reform). SENATE REPORTS: No. 114-289 (Comm. on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs) accompanying S. 2340. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 162 (2016):

           June 7, considered and passed House.
           July 14, considered and passed Senate.

Resources

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