the Special Inspector General, or an authorized 
designee. 
(B) REPORTING
OF
REFUSED
ASSIST-
ANCE.— 
(i) REPORTING
TO
HEALTH
AND 
HUMAN SERVICES AND CONGRESS.—In ac-
cordance with clause (ii), as the case may 
be, whenever information or assistance re-
quested by the Special Inspector General 
is, in the judgment of the Special Inspector 
General, unreasonably refused or not pro-
vided, the Special Inspector General shall 
report the circumstances to the Secretary 
of Health and Human Services and to the 
appropriate congressional committees with-
out delay. 
(ii) REPORTING TO THE PUBLIC ON 
REFUSAL OR NONCOOPERATION IN TRANS-
PARENCY.—Whenever any information de-
scribed in clause (i) is requested by the 
Special Inspector General and unreason-
ably refused or not provided, the report to 
the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices and the appropriate congressional 
committees shall be titled ‘‘Notice of Re-
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fusal or Noncooperation in Transparency’’ 
and shall be published on a publicly avail-
able website in an accessible format with-
out delay. 
(6) USE
OF
PERSONNEL, FACILITIES, AND 
OTHER RESOURCES OF THE OFFICE.—Upon the re-
quest of the Special Inspector General, an Inspector 
General— 
(A) may detail, on a reimbursable basis, to 
the Office any of the personnel of such Inspec-
tor General’s office for the purpose of carrying 
out this section; and 
(B) may provide, on a reimbursable basis, 
any of the facilities or other resources of the 
Office for the purpose of carrying out this sec-
tion. 
(i) REPORTS.— 
(1) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than 90 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Spe-
cial Inspector General shall submit to the appro-
priate congressional committees and the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services a report summarizing, 
for the period beginning on the date of the enact-
ment of the Health Care and Education Reconcili-
ation Act of 2010 and ending on the completion of 
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a fiscal year quarter after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the activities during such period of the 
Special Inspector General required under subsection 
(e). 
(2) QUARTERLY REPORTS.—Beginning with the 
first full fiscal year quarter after the date of the en-
actment of this Act, not later than 30 days after the 
end of each fiscal year quarter, during which the Af-
fordable Care Act is in effect, the Special Inspector 
General shall submit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees and the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services a report summarizing, for the pe-
riod of that quarter and, to the extent possible, the 
period from the end of such quarter to the time of 
the submission of the report, the activities during 
such period of the Special Inspector General re-
quired under subsection (e). 
(3) COMMENTS ON REPORT.—Not later than 30 
days after receipt of a report under this subsection, 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
any comments on the matters covered by the report. 
(4) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY; RECORDKEEPING.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Special Inspector 
General shall publish on a publicly available 
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website each report described under this sub-
section and any comments on the matters cov-
ered by the report submitted pursuant to para-
graph (3). 
(B) REQUIREMENT TO INDEX.—Except as 
provided in subparagraph (C), the Special In-
spector General shall, to the greatest extent 
possible, index and publish on the publicly 
available website information for each source 
used in each report described under this sub-
section, including whenever applicable the docu-
ment name, author, and owner. 
(C) EXCEPTION
TO
INDEX
REQUIRE-
MENT.—The Special Inspector General may ex-
cept with a written note of exclusion certain in-
formation required to be published pursuant to 
subparagraph (B) that the Special Inspector 
General determines is— 
(i) necessary to protect an individual 
that provided the information; or 
(ii) classified. 
(D) RECORDKEEPING REQUIREMENT.—All 
source material and information used to create 
a report described under this subsection, includ-
ing information excepted under subparagraph 
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(C), shall be identified, indexed (in a classified 
annex, if necessary), and maintained (including 
any written note of exclusion) by the Special In-
spector General. 
(5) PROTECTED INFORMATION.—To the extent 
possible, information submitted in any report re-
quired under this subsection shall be in a form that 
is not prohibited from disclosure under section 552a 
of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as 
the Privacy Act of 1974). 
(6) AGGREGATED INFORMATION.—The Special 
Inspector General shall, to the maximum extent pos-
sible, aggregate any personally identifiable informa-
tion submitted in a report required under this sub-
section. 
(j) AMENDMENT
TO
THE
INSPECTOR
GENERAL 
ACT.—Section 8D of the Inspector General Act (5 U.S.C. 
App.) is amended in subsections (e) and (f) by inserting 
after ‘‘for Tax Administration’’, each place it appears, the 
following: ‘‘and the Special Inspector General for Moni-
toring the Affordable Care Act’’. 
(k) TERMINATION.—The Office of the Special Inspec-
tor General shall terminate the earlier of— 
(1) January 1, 2025; or 
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(2) the date on which the final report required 
by subsection (h) is submitted for the last year the 
Affordable Care Act is in effect. 
(l) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) AFFORDABLE CARE ACT.—The term ‘‘Af-
fordable Care Act’’ means the Patient Protection 
and Affordable Care Act and title I and subtitle B 
of title II of the Health Care and Education Rec-
onciliation Act of 2010. 
(2) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committees on Appropriations; the 
Budget; Education and the Workforce; Energy 
and Commerce; Homeland Security; the Judici-
ary; Oversight and Government Reform; Small 
Business; and Ways and Means of the House of 
Representatives; and 
(B) the Committees on Appropriations; the 
Budget; Commerce, Science, and Transpor-
tation; Finance; Health, Education, Labor, and 
Pensions; Homeland Security and Govern-
mental Affairs; the Judiciary; and Small Busi-
ness and Entrepreneurship of the Senate. 
Æ 
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