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Calendar No. 438 

109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 457 

To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to issue 

guidance for, and provide oversight of, the management of micropurchases made with Governmentwide commercial purchase cards, and for 

other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

FEBRUARY 18, 2005 

Ms. COLLINS (for herself, Mr. FEINGOLD, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. COLEMAN, and Mr. 

AKAKA) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

MAY 19, 2006 

Reported by Ms. COLLINS, with amendments 

[Omit the part struck through and insert the part printed in italic] 

A BILL 

To require the Director of the Office of Management and 

Budget to issue guidance for, and provide oversight of, 

the management of micropurchases made with Governmentwide commercial purchase cards, 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 ‘‘Purchase Card Waste 

3 Elimination Act of 2006’’. 

4 SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR GUIDANCE. 

5 (a) OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET POLICY

6 GUIDANCE.—Not later than 180 days after the date of 

7 the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of 

8 Management and Budget shall issue guidelines to assist 

9 the heads of executive agencies in improving the manage10 ment of the use of the Governmentwide commercial pur11 chase card for making micropurchases. The Director shall 

12 include guidelines on the following matters: 

13 (1) Analysis of purchase card expenditures to 

14 identify opportunities for achieving savings through 

15 micropurchases made in economical volumes. 

16 (2) Negotiation of discount agreements with 

17 major vendors accepting the purchase card. 

18 (3) Establishment of communication programs 

19 to ensure that purchase card holders receive infor20 mation pertaining to the availability of discounts, in21 cluding programs for the training of purchase card 

22 holders on the availability of discounts. 

23 (4) Assessment of cardholder purchasing prac24 tices, including use of discount agreements. 


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1 (5) Collection and dissemination of best prac2 tices and successful strategies for achieving savings 

3 in micropurchases. 

4 (b) GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION.—The Ad5 ministrator of General Services shall direct the purchase 

6 card program manager of the General Services Adminis7 tration— 

8 (1) to continue continue efforts to improve re9 porting by financial institutions that issue the Gov10 ernmentwide commercial purchase card so that the 

11 General Services Administration has the data needed 

12 to identify opportunities for achieving savings; and 

13 (2) to ensure that the acquisition center con14 tracting officers of the General Services Administra15 tion actively pursue point-of-sale discounts with 

16 major vendors accepting the purchase card so that 

17 any Federal Government purchaser using the pur18 chase card can benefit from such point-of-sale dis19 counts. 

20 (c) AGENCY REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—The pur21 chase card program manager The senior procurement exec22 utive for each executive agency shall, as directed by the 

23 Director of the Office of Management and Budget, submit 

24 to the Director periodic reports on the actions taken in 


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1 such executive agency pursuant to the guidelines issued 

2 under subsection (a). 

3 (d) CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT.—Not later than 

4 December 31 of the year following the year in which this 

5 Act is enacted, and December 31 of each of the ensuing 

6 three years, the Director of the Office of Management and 

7 Budget shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Secu8 rity and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Com9 mittee on Government Reform of the House of Represent10 atives a report summarizing the progress made during the 

11 fiscal year ending in the year in which such report is 

12 due— 

13 (1) in improving the management of the use of 

14 the Governmentwide commercial purchase card for 

15 making micropurchases; and 

16 (2) in achieving savings in micropurchases 

17 made with such card, expressed in terms of savings 

18 achieved by each executive agency average savings 

19 achieved by each executive agency in the use of dis20 count agreements identified in subsection (a) and the 

21 total savings achieved Governmentwide. 

22 (e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

23 (1) The term ‘‘executive agency’’ has the mean24 ing given such term in section 4 of the Office of 

25 Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 403). 


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1 (2) The term ‘‘micropurchase’’ means a pur2 chase in an amount not in excess of the micropur3 chase threshold, as defined in section 32 of such Act 

4 (41 U.S.C. 428). 

5 SEC. 3. PAYMENTS TO FEDERAL CONTRACTORS WITH FED6 ERAL TAX DEBT. 

7 The General Services Administration, in conjunction 

8 with the Internal Revenue Service and the Financial Man9 agement Service, shall develop procedures to subject pur10 chase card payments to Federal contractors to the Federal 

11 Payment Levy program. 

12 SEC. 4. REPORTING OF AIR TRAVEL BY FEDERAL GOVERN13 MENT EMPLOYEES. 

14 (a) ANNUAL REPORTS REQUIRED.—The Adminis15 trator of the General Services shall submit annually to the 

16 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af17 fairs of the Senate and the Committee on Government Re18 form of the House of Representatives a report on all first 

19 class and business class travel by employees of each execu20 tive agency undertaken at the expense of the Federal Gov21 ernment. 

22 (b) CONTENT.—The reports submitted pursuant to sub23 section (a) shall include, at a minimum, with respect to 

24 each travel by first class or business class— 

25 (1) the names of each traveler; 


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1 (2) the date of travel; 

2 (3) the points of origination and destination; 

3 (4) the cost of the first class or business class 

4 travel; and 

5 (5) the cost difference between such travel and 

6 travel by coach class. 

7 (c) EXECUTIVE AGENCY DEFINED.—In this section, 

8 the term ‘‘executive agency’’ has the meaning given such 

9 term in section 4 of the Office of Federal Procurement Pol10 icy Act (41 U.S.C. 403). 


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Calendar No. 438 

109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 457 

A BILL 

To require the Director of the Office of Managepurchase cards, and for other purposes. chases made with Governmentwide commercial vide oversight of, the management of micropur- ment and Budget to issue guidance for, and proMAY 19, 2006 

Reported with amendments 


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