130 STAT. 824 PUBLIC LAW 114–210—JULY 29, 2016 

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. 

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. 

Analyze. 

Inventory. 

Making 

Electronic 

Government 

Accountable By 

Yielding Tangible 

Efficiencies Act 

of 2016. 

40 USC 11302 

note. 

July 29, 2016 

[H.R. 4904] 


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PUBLIC LAW 114–210—JULY 29, 2016 130 STAT. 825 

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. 

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(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. 

Approved July 29, 2016. 

Public 

information. 

Effective date. 

Deadline. 


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