114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4904 

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. 

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

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Making Electronic 

3 Government Accountable By Yielding Tangible Effi4 ciencies Act of 2016’’ or the ‘‘MEGABYTE Act of 2016’’. 

5 SEC. 2. OMB DIRECTIVE ON MANAGEMENT OF SOFTWARE 

6 LICENSES. 

7 (a) DEFINITION.—In this section— 

8 (1) the term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of 

9 the Office of Management and Budget; and 

10 (2) the term ‘‘executive agency’’ has the mean11 ing given that term in section 105 of title 5, United 

12 States Code. 

13 (b) OMB DIRECTIVE.—The Director shall issue a di14 rective to require the Chief Information Officer of each 

15 executive agency to develop a comprehensive software li16 censing policy, which shall— 

17 (1) identify clear roles, responsibilities, and cen18 tral oversight authority within the executive agency 

19 for managing enterprise software license agreements 

20 and commercial software licenses; and 

21 (2) require the Chief Information Officer of 

22 each executive agency to— 

23 (A) establish a comprehensive inventory, 

24 including 80 percent of software license spend25 ing and enterprise licenses in the executive 

26 agency, by identifying and collecting informa-
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1 tion about software license agreements using 

2 automated discovery and inventory tools; 

3 (B) regularly track and maintain software 

4 licenses to assist the executive agency in imple5 menting decisions throughout the software li6 cense management life cycle; 

7 (C) analyze software usage and other data 

8 to make cost-effective decisions; 

9 (D) provide training relevant to software 

10 license management; 

11 (E) establish goals and objectives of the 

12 software license management program of the 

13 executive agency; and 

14 (F) consider the software license manage15 ment life cycle phases, including the requisition, 

16 reception, deployment and maintenance, retire17 ment, and disposal phases, to implement effec18 tive decisionmaking and incorporate existing 

19 standards, processes, and metrics. 

20 (c) REPORT ON SOFTWARE LICENSE MANAGE21 MENT.— 

22 (1) IN GENERAL.—Beginning in the first fiscal 

23 year beginning after the date of enactment of this 

24 Act, and in each of the following 5 fiscal years, the 

25 Chief Information Officer of each executive agency 
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1 shall submit to the Director a report on the financial 

2 savings or avoidance of spending that resulted from 

3 improved software license management. 

4 (2) AVAILABILITY.—The Director shall make 

5 each report submitted under paragraph (1) pub6 lically available. 

Passed the House of Representatives June 7, 2016. 

Attest: 

Clerk. 

114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4904 

AN ACT 

To require the Director of the Office of Managepurposes. management of software licenses, and for other ment and Budget to issue a directive on the