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Calendar No. 744 

118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 5109 

[Report No. 118–324] 

To amend section 3520A of title 44, United States Code, to extend the 

Chief Data Officer Council’s sunset and add new authorities for improving Federal agency data governance, including to enable reliable and 

secure adoption of emerging technologies and artificial intelligence, and 

for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024 

Mr. PETERS (for himself and Mr. YOUNG) introduced the following bill; which 

was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 

Governmental Affairs 

DECEMBER 19 (legislative day, DECEMBER 16), 2024 

Reported by Mr. PETERS, with an amendment 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

A BILL 

To amend section 3520A of title 44, United States Code, 

to extend the Chief Data Officer Council’s sunset and 

add new authorities for improving Federal agency data 

governance, including to enable reliable and secure adoption of emerging technologies and artificial intelligence, 

and for other purposes. 


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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Modernizing Data 

5 Practices to Improve Government Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 3520A of title 44, United 

8 States Code, is amended— 

9 (1) by striking subsections (d) and (e); 

10 (2) by redesignating subsections (a) through (c) 

11 as subsections (b) through (d), respectively; 

12 (3) by inserting before subsection (b), as so re13 designated, the following: 

14 ‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

15 ‘‘(1) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.—The term 

16 ‘artificial intelligence’— 

17 ‘‘(A) has the meaning given that term in 

18 section 5002 of the National Artificial Intel19 ligence Initiative Act of 2020 (15 U.S.C. 9401); 

20 and 

21 ‘‘(B) includes the artificial systems and 

22 techniques described in paragraphs (1) through 

23 (5) of section 238(g) of the John S. McCain 

24 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 


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1 Year 2019 (Public Law 115–232; 10 U.S.C. 

2 4061 note prec.). 

3 ‘‘(2) DATA GOVERNANCE.—The term ‘data gov4 ernance’— 

5 ‘‘(A) means the approach of an agency to 

6 managing data during the lifecycle of the data, 

7 from acquisition, to use, to disposal; and 

8 ‘‘(B) includes— 

9 ‘‘(i) all actions an agency must take 

10 and the technology and processes an agen11 cy must use to ensure data is secure, pri12 vate, accurate, available, and usable; and 

13 ‘‘(ii) authorities, roles, responsibilities, 

14 organizational structures, policies, proce15 dures, standards, and resources for the 

16 definition, stewardship, production, secu17 rity provenance, and use of data. 

18 ‘‘(3) USE CASE.—The term ‘use case’ means a 

19 description of the ways and circumstances in which 

20 a technology is deployed to perform a specific func21 tion.’’; 

22 (4) in subsection (c), as so redesignated— 

23 (A) by redesignating paragraph (5) as 

24 paragraph (6); 


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1 (B) in paragraph (4), by striking the 

2 ‘‘and’’ at the end; and 

3 (C) by inserting after paragraph (4) the 

4 following: 

5 ‘‘(5) identify opportunities and procedures to 

6 improve data governance to— 

7 ‘‘(A) ensure the data of agencies are trans8 parent, accessible, and of sufficient quality for 

9 the intended use of the data; and 

10 ‘‘(B) support agency heads and their ef11 forts to reliably and securely leverage emerging 

12 technologies and artificial intelligence, to ensure 

13 mission outcomes and improve operational effi14 ciency across agencies; and’’; 

15 (5) in subsection (d)(3), as so redesignated— 

16 (A) by striking ‘‘The Administrator’’ and 

17 inserting the following: 

18 ‘‘(A) ADMINISTRATOR OF THE OFFICE OF

19 ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT.—The Adminis20 trator’’; and 

21 (B) by inserting after subparagraph (A), 

22 as so designated, the following: 

23 ‘‘(B) APPOINTED MEMBERS.—The Direc24 tor shall appoint a representative from among 


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1 Chief Artificial Intelligence Officers to serve on 

2 the Council.’’; and 

3 (6) by adding at the end the following: 

4 ‘‘(e) DATA GOVERNANCE REPORTS.—The Council 

5 shall submit to the Director, the Committee on Homeland 

6 Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, and the 

7 Committee on Oversight and Accountability of the House 

8 of Representatives— 

9 ‘‘(1) a biennial report on the work of the Coun10 cil, including any updates to the recommendations 

11 provided in the report required under paragraph (2) 

12 of this subsection; 

13 ‘‘(2) not later than 1 year after the date of en14 actment of this subsection, a report with rec15 ommendations and best practices for agencies on de16 veloping datasets, data governance policies, and in17 frastructure to enable adoption and use of emerging 

18 technologies and artificial intelligence, including for 

19 use in training, testing, and operation of artificial 

20 intelligence within agencies that includes— 

21 ‘‘(A) an assessment of key data governance 

22 and sharing challenges preventing adoption of 

23 emerging technologies and artificial intelligence 

24 across agencies; 


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1 ‘‘(B) an assessment of ways to strengthen 

2 and clarify roles and responsibilities related to 

3 data governance between senior agency leaders, 

4 including the Chief Information Officer, the 

5 Chief Information Security Officer, the Chief 

6 Financial Officer, the Chief Privacy Officer, the 

7 Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, and the 

8 Chief Acquisition Officer; 

9 ‘‘(C) recommendations for data governance 

10 best practices, including— 

11 ‘‘(i) best practices to ensure data used 

12 for testing, training, and operation of arti13 ficial intelligence is reliable, relevant to the 

14 task, representative of the impacted indi15 viduals of the artificial intelligence system, 

16 transparent, high quality, and protects the 

17 privacy and personally identifiable informa18 tion of individuals; and 

19 ‘‘(ii) defining key data standards, in20 cluding data quality; 

21 ‘‘(D) a prioritization of agency artificial in22 telligence use cases that address a critical need 

23 across the Federal Government, for which new 

24 or shared datasets are needed to support adop25 tion; 


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1 ‘‘(E) identification of existing data avail2 able to 1 or more agencies that would benefit 

3 other such agencies if the data were shared or 

4 made available; 

5 ‘‘(F) recommendations for ways to address 

6 increases in risks, including through training of 

7 relevant agency employees, associated with— 

8 ‘‘(i) the potential for misuse of, mis9 management of, and unauthorized access 

10 to data and personally identifiable informa11 tion of individuals when an agency 

12 leverages data for use in artificial intel13 ligence, including identification of software 

14 or hardware solutions, technical processes, 

15 techniques, or other technological means of 

16 mitigating privacy risks arising from data 

17 processing; or 

18 ‘‘(ii) increasing access to the data of 

19 the agency for the purposes of supporting 

20 a cross-Government mission; 

21 ‘‘(G) recommendations for data ownership 

22 and retention policies and procedures, including 

23 policies and procedures to ensure that agency 

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1 clude any necessary clauses to ensure that the 

2 Federal Government— 

3 ‘‘(i) retains sufficient rights to data, 

4 and any modifications to that data; 

5 ‘‘(ii) avoids vendor lock-in and retains 

6 the ability to facilitate or conduct the con7 tinued design, development, testing, and 

8 operation of artificial intelligence by the 

9 Federal Government; and 

10 ‘‘(iii) can conduct pre-procurement re11 views of artificial intelligence to assess po12 tential error issues; 

13 ‘‘(H) criteria agencies should consider 

14 when using data to train artificial intelligence 

15 used by agencies, including recommendations 

16 for— 

17 ‘‘(i) ways to increase transparency of 

18 training data for the public and for agency 

19 employees using the relevant artificial in20 telligence system software; 

21 ‘‘(ii) processes and procedures to ana22 lyze and test training data for potential 

23 risks; 


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1 ‘‘(iii) criteria for determining how to 

2 preserve the interests of the Federal Gov3 ernment; and 

4 ‘‘(iv) performance evaluation metrics 

5 to ensure that an artificial intelligence sys6 tem performs as intended; 

7 ‘‘(I) recommendations for ways to expand 

8 public access to Federal data assets in a ma9 chine-readable format while also taking into ac10 count security considerations, including the risk 

11 that, while information in an individual data 

12 asset may not pose a security risk in isolation, 

13 such information could pose a security risk 

14 when combined with other data assets; 

15 ‘‘(J) recommendations for defining, gener16 ating, using, and ensuring the privacy and secu17 rity of synthetic data in the Federal Govern18 ment, including— 

19 ‘‘(i) a formalized definition of syn20 thetic data generation for government use, 

21 including specifying definitions for data 

22 which is fully or partially synthetic; 

23 ‘‘(ii) guidance for agencies on best 

24 practices around synthetic data generation 


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1 and use, including tools or techniques 

2 agencies should take to— 

3 ‘‘(I) mitigate privacy and security 

4 risks; 

5 ‘‘(II) ensure agencies practice ap6 propriate processes to ensure the ac7 curacy and quality of synthetic data 

8 and the appropriateness for the in9 tended use of the synthetic data by 

10 the agency; 

11 ‘‘(III) adopt the appropriate 

12 techniques to validate synthetic data, 

13 including data profiling, data consist14 ency, data integrity, and data docu15 mentation; and 

16 ‘‘(IV) communicate opportunities, 

17 risks, and limitations of synthetic data 

18 internally to agencies and externally 

19 to the public; 

20 ‘‘(iii) opportunities across the Federal 

21 Government and within specific agencies 

22 for embracing or avoiding the use of syn23 thetic data; and 

24 ‘‘(iv) opportunities for the Federal 

25 Government to partner with public and 


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1 private sector entities in the development 

2 and sharing of data, including synthetic 

3 data, to help in the adoption of emerging 

4 technologies and artificial intelligence; and 

5 ‘‘(K) for subparagraphs (A) through (J), 

6 an indication of how agencies can incorporate 

7 the respective recommendations and best prac8 tices into existing agency processes and statu9 tory requirements. 

10 ‘‘(f) DATA GOVERNANCE GUIDANCE.—The Director, 

11 upon receipt of a report required under subsection (e), 

12 may issue guidance to agencies with respect to the imple13 mentation of the recommendations of the report. 

14 ‘‘(g) DATA MANAGEMENT REPORT.—Not later than 

15 270 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, 

16 the Director, in consultation with the Council, shall submit 

17 to Congress an annual report with recommendations to 

18 clarify and enhance the roles of the Chief Data Officers 

19 across the Federal Government relating to data govern20 ance for artificial intelligence, including— 

21 ‘‘(1) an inventory of all Chief Data Officers of 

22 agencies, including, with respect to each agency— 

23 ‘‘(A) any additional roles or titles the Chief 

24 Data Officer holds at the agency; 


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1 ‘‘(B) the organizational structure of the 

2 agency, including any official to whom the Chief 

3 Data Officer reports to within the agency; and 

4 ‘‘(C) the respective roles, responsibilities, 

5 and statutory authorities relating to data and 

6 artificial intelligence of the Chief Data Officer 

7 at the agency; 

8 ‘‘(2) an identification of skills and resources 

9 needed by Chief Data Officers and their staffs to 

10 support artificial intelligence system adoption at 

11 agencies; and 

12 ‘‘(3) recommendations for suggested collabora13 tion opportunities between the Council and other 

14 interagency councils to improve data governance best 

15 practices across government, including— 

16 ‘‘(A) the Chief Financial Officers Council; 

17 ‘‘(B) the Chief Human Capital Officers 

18 Council; 

19 ‘‘(C) the Chief Acquisition Officers Coun20 cil; 

21 ‘‘(D) the Federal Privacy Council; 

22 ‘‘(E) the Chief Information Officers Coun23 cil; and 

24 ‘‘(F) other key groups of the Federal Gov25 ernment. 


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1 ‘‘(h) EVALUATION.—Not later than 2 years after the 

2 date of enactment of this subsection, and not less fre3 quently than once every 2 years thereafter, the Comp4 troller General shall submit to Congress a report on— 

5 ‘‘(1) whether the duties of the Council improved 

6 the use of evidence and program evaluation in the 

7 Federal Government; and 

8 ‘‘(2) any barriers or challenges preventing the 

9 Council from accomplishing the objectives under this 

10 section or the amendments made by the Modernizing 

11 Data Practices to Improve Government Act.’’. 

12 (b) SUNSET.—Beginning on the date that is 7 years 

13 after the date of enactment of this Act, the amendments 

14 made by this Act shall have no force or effect. 

15 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

16 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Modernizing Data Prac17 tices to Improve Government Act’’. 

18 SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS. 

19 Section 3520A of title 44, United States Code, is 

20 amended— 

21 (1) by striking subsections (d) and (e); 

22 (2) by redesignating subsections (a) through (c) 

23 as subsections (b) through (d), respectively; 

24 (3) by inserting before subsection (b), as so redes25 ignated, the following: 


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1 ‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

2 ‘‘(1) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.—The term ‘ar3 tificial intelligence’— 

4 ‘‘(A) has the meaning given that term in 

5 section 5002 of the National Artificial Intel6 ligence Initiative Act of 2020 (15 U.S.C. 9401); 

7 and 

8 ‘‘(B) includes the artificial systems and 

9 techniques described in paragraphs (1) through 

10 (5) of section 238(g) of the John S. McCain Na11 tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

12 2019 (Public Law 115–232; 10 U.S.C. 4061 note 

13 prec.). 

14 ‘‘(2) DATA GOVERNANCE.—The term ‘data gov15 ernance’— 

16 ‘‘(A) means the approach of an agency to 

17 managing data during the lifecycle of the data; 

18 and 

19 ‘‘(B) includes— 

20 ‘‘(i) agency responsibilities and re21 quirements to ensure data is secure, private, 

22 accurate, available, and usable; and 

23 ‘‘(ii) authorities, roles, responsibilities, 

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1 nition, stewardship, production, security 

2 provenance, dissemination, and use of 

3 data.’’; 

4 (4) in subsection (c), as so redesignated— 

5 (A) by redesignating paragraph (5) as 

6 paragraph (6); 

7 (B) in paragraph (4), by striking the ‘‘and’’ 

8 at the end; and 

9 (C) by inserting after paragraph (4) the fol10 lowing: 

11 ‘‘(5) identify opportunities and procedures to 

12 improve data governance to— 

13 ‘‘(A) ensure that publicly available data of 

14 agencies are transparent, accessible, and of suffi15 cient quality for the intended use of the data; 

16 and 

17 ‘‘(B) support agency heads and their efforts 

18 to reliably and securely leverage emerging tech19 nologies and artificial intelligence, including to 

20 ensure mission outcomes and improve oper21 ational efficiency across agencies; and’’; 

22 (5) in subsection (d)(4), as so redesignated, by 

23 striking ‘‘and Evaluation Officers’’ through ‘‘member 

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1 resentative for all Chief Privacy Officers, and such 

2 representatives shall serve as non-voting ex officio 

3 members of the Council’’; and 

4 (6) by adding at the end the following: 

5 ‘‘(e) COUNCIL STAFF.—The Council may enter into an 

6 interagency agreement with the Administrator of General 

7 Services for shared services for the purpose of staffing the 

8 Council. 

9 ‘‘(f) DATA GOVERNANCE REPORTS.—The Council shall 

10 submit to the Director, the Committee on Homeland Secu11 rity and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, and the Com12 mittee on Oversight and Accountability of the House of Rep13 resentatives— 

14 ‘‘(1) a biennial report on the work of the Coun15 cil, including any updates to the recommendations 

16 provided in the report required under paragraph (2) 

17 of this subsection and an explanation of the work to 

18 ensure progress on each of the objectives in subsection 

19 (c); 

20 ‘‘(2) not later than 1 year after the date of enact21 ment of this subsection, a report with recommenda22 tions and best practices for agencies (taking into ac23 count that the recommendations may not apply to all 

24 agencies or to all agencies equally, based on the 

25 unique missions and capabilities of each agency) for 


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1 developing datasets, data governance policies, and in2 frastructure, including to enable adoption and use of 

3 emerging technologies and artificial intelligence, such 

4 as for use in training, testing, and operation of arti5 ficial intelligence within agencies, which shall in6 clude— 

7 ‘‘(A) an assessment of key data governance 

8 and sharing challenges, including those that pre9 vent adoption of emerging technologies and arti10 ficial intelligence across agencies; 

11 ‘‘(B) an assessment, as applicable, of ways 

12 to strengthen and clarify the roles and respon13 sibilities relating to data governance of agency 

14 officials, in addition to the Chief Data Officer; 

15 ‘‘(C) recommendations for data governance 

16 best practices, including— 

17 ‘‘(i) best practices to ensure data used 

18 is reliable, fit for purpose, transparent, high 

19 quality, protects privacy and personally 

20 identifiable information, and protects con21 fidentiality of individuals and other sen22 sitive information, including data used for 

23 testing, training, and operation of artificial 

24 intelligence; and 


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1 ‘‘(ii) defining key data standards, in2 cluding data quality; 

3 ‘‘(D) a prioritization of existing and future 

4 agency artificial intelligence use cases that ad5 dress a critical need across the Federal Govern6 ment, for which new or shared datasets are need7 ed to support adoption; 

8 ‘‘(E) identification of existing data avail9 able to 1 or more agencies that would benefit 

10 other such agencies if the data were shared or 

11 made available; 

12 ‘‘(F) recommendations for ways Chief Data 

13 Officers should work with relevant agency offi14 cials to assist in addressing increases in risks as15 sociated with— 

16 ‘‘(i) the potential for misuse of, mis17 management of, and unauthorized access to 

18 data and personally identifiable informa19 tion of individuals when an agency 

20 leverages data for use in artificial intel21 ligence, including identification of software 

22 or hardware solutions, technical processes, 

23 techniques, or other technological means of 

24 mitigating privacy risks arising from data 

25 processing; and 


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1 ‘‘(ii) increasing access to the data of 

2 the agency for the purposes of supporting a 

3 cross-Government mission; 

4 ‘‘(G) recommendations for data ownership 

5 and retention policies and procedures, including 

6 how Chief Data Officers can support Chief Pro7 curement Officers and relevant officials in ensur8 ing that agency contracts to procure emerging 

9 technology or artificial intelligence include any 

10 necessary clauses to ensure that the Federal Gov11 ernment— 

12 ‘‘(i) retains sufficient rights to data, 

13 and any modifications to that data; 

14 ‘‘(ii) avoids vendor lock-in and retains 

15 the ability to facilitate or conduct the con16 tinued design, development, testing, and op17 eration of data by the Federal Government; 

18 ‘‘(iii) can conduct pre-procurement re19 views of artificial intelligence to assess po20 tential error issues; and 

21 ‘‘(iv) maximizes the use of and access 

22 to open data, open source software, and 

23 public access research to improve trans24 parency, knowledge sharing, and interoper25 ability; 


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1 ‘‘(H) criteria agencies should consider when 

2 using data to train artificial intelligence used by 

3 agencies, including recommendations for— 

4 ‘‘(i) ways to increase transparency of 

5 training data for the public and for agency 

6 employees using the relevant artificial intel7 ligence system software; and 

8 ‘‘(ii) processes and procedures to ana9 lyze and test training data for potential 

10 risks; 

11 ‘‘(I) recommendations for ways to expand 

12 public access to Federal data assets in a ma13 chine-readable format while also taking into ac14 count the criteria listed under section 

15 3511(a)(2)(E); 

16 ‘‘(J) recommendations for defining, gener17 ating, using, and ensuring the privacy and secu18 rity of synthetic data in the Federal Govern19 ment, including— 

20 ‘‘(i) a formalized definition of syn21 thetic data generation for government use, 

22 including specifying definitions for data 

23 which is fully or partially synthetic; 


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1 ‘‘(ii) best practices relating to synthetic 

2 data generation and use, including tools or 

3 techniques agencies should take to— 

4 ‘‘(I) mitigate privacy and secu5 rity risks; 

6 ‘‘(II) ensure the accuracy and 

7 quality of synthetic data and the ap8 propriateness for the intended use of 

9 the synthetic data by the agency; 

10 ‘‘(III) adopt the appropriate tech11 niques to validate synthetic data, in12 cluding data profiling, data consist13 ency, data integrity, and data docu14 mentation; and 

15 ‘‘(IV) communicate opportunities, 

16 risks, and limitations of synthetic data 

17 internally to relevant Federal employ18 ees and externally to the public; 

19 ‘‘(iii) opportunities across the Federal 

20 Government and within specific agencies for 

21 using synthetic data; 

22 ‘‘(iv) circumstances when agencies 

23 should not use synthetic data; and 

24 ‘‘(v) opportunities for the Federal Gov25 ernment to partner with public and private 


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1 sector entities in the development and shar2 ing of data, including synthetic data, in3 cluding to help in the adoption of emerging 

4 technologies and artificial intelligence, while 

5 also taking into account the criteria under 

6 section 3511(a)(2)(E); and 

7 ‘‘(K) for subparagraphs (A) through (J), an 

8 indication of how agencies can incorporate the 

9 respective recommendations and best practices 

10 into existing agency processes and statutory re11 quirements. 

12 ‘‘(g) DATA GOVERNANCE GUIDANCE.—The Director, 

13 upon receipt of a report required under subsection (f), may 

14 issue guidance to agencies with respect to the implementa15 tion of the recommendations of the report. 

16 ‘‘(h) DATA MANAGEMENT REPORT.—Not later than 

17 270 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, the 

18 Director, in consultation with the Council, shall— 

19 ‘‘(1) submit to Congress and make available on 

20 a public website a report with recommendations to 

21 clarify and enhance the roles of the Chief Data Offi22 cers across the Federal Government relating to data 

23 governance, including for artificial intelligence and 

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1 agency councils, and additional Federal Government 

2 entities the Council determines relevant; and 

3 ‘‘(2) make available on a public website, not less 

4 frequently than annually— 

5 ‘‘(A) a list of all Chief Data Officers of 

6 agencies, including, with respect to each Chief 

7 Data Officer— 

8 ‘‘(i) any additional roles or titles the 

9 Chief Data Officer holds at the agency; and 

10 ‘‘(ii) the respective roles, responsibil11 ities, and statutory authorities of the Chief 

12 Data Officer at the agency relating to data 

13 and artificial intelligence; and 

14 ‘‘(B) an identification of skills and re15 sources needed by Chief Data Officers and their 

16 staffs, including to support artificial intelligence 

17 system adoption at agencies. 

18 ‘‘(i) EVALUATION.—Not later than 2 years after the 

19 date of enactment of this subsection, and not less frequently 

20 than once every 2 years thereafter, the Comptroller General 

21 shall submit to Congress a report on— 

22 ‘‘(1) whether the duties of the Council improved 

23 the use of evidence and data in the Federal Govern24 ment; and 


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1 ‘‘(2) any barriers or challenges preventing the 

2 Council from accomplishing the objectives under this 

3 section or the amendments made by the Modernizing 

4 Data Practices to Improve Government Act. 

5 ‘‘(j) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec6 tion shall be construed to require an agency to implement 

7 any recommendation developed pursuant to subsection (f) 

8 or (h). 

9 ‘‘(k) SUNSET.—Beginning on the date that is 7 years 

10 after the date of enactment of this subsection, this section 

11 shall have no force or effect.’’. 

12 SEC. 3. NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS. 

13 No additional funds are authorized to be appropriated 

14 for the purpose of carrying out this Act. 


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Calendar No. 744 

118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 5109 

[Report No. 118–324] 

A BILL 

To amend section 3520A of title 44, United States 

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other purposes. technologies and artificial intelligence, and for able reliable and secure adoption of emerging Federal agency data governance, including to ensunset and add new authorities for improving Code, to extend the Chief Data Officer Council’s 

ECEMBER 19 (legislative day, DECEMBER 16), 2024 

Reported with an amendment 


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