I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 614 
To provide for savings, accountability, value, and efficiency, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 28, 2015 
Mr. MURPHY of Florida (for himself, Mr. JOLLY, Mr. ASHFORD, Mr. 
CURBELO of Florida, Ms. SINEMA, Mr. MULVANEY, Ms. KUSTER, Mr. 
FITZPATRICK, Mr. SWALWELL of California, and Mr. BARR) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans’ Af-
fairs, Appropriations, Agriculture, Energy and Commerce, Ways and 
Means, Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, the Judiciary, Financial Serv-
ices, House Administration, and Rules, for a period to be subsequently 
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide for savings, accountability, value, and efficiency, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Savings, Accountability, Value, and Efficiency Act of 
2015’’ or the ‘‘SAVE Act’’. 
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(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
TITLE I—SAVE I 
Sec. 100. Short title. 
Subtitle A—Provisions Relating to Federal Property, Federal Contracts, and 
Information Technology 
Sec. 101. Management of Federal excess and underutilized real property. 
Sec. 102. Promotion of competition in Federal contracting. 
Sec. 103. Promotion of strategic sourcing in Federal contracting. 
Sec. 104. Strengthening oversight of information technology operations. 
Subtitle B—Other Matters 
Sec. 111. Rescission of unobligated budget authority for Department of Energy 
ATVM loan program. 
Sec. 112. Report on implementation of certain Medicare and Medicaid fraud 
detection and program integrity provisions. 
Sec. 113. Study and report on the enhancement of agricultural quarantine and 
inspection fees. 
Sec. 114. Authorization of depleted uranium sales. 
Sec. 115. Coordination of diesel emissions controls. 
TITLE II—SAVE II 
Sec. 201. Short title. 
Sec. 202. Department of Defense unmanned aircraft systems. 
Sec. 203. Finalizing Department of Defense inventory management guidance. 
Sec. 204. Revocation or denial of passport and passport card in case of certain 
unpaid taxes. 
Sec. 205. Consideration of prospective antidumping and countervailing duty col-
lection system. 
Sec. 206. Report on effectiveness of foreign assistance programs and projects. 
Sec. 207. Conversion of prison X-ray systems. 
Sec. 208. Prohibition on non-cost effective minting and printing of coins and 
currency. 
Sec. 209. Restrictions on printing and distribution of paper copies of Congres-
sional documents. 
TITLE III—SAVE III 
Sec. 301. Short title. 
Sec. 302. Software license management. 
Sec. 303. United States Postal Service fleet efficiency. 
Sec. 304. Government Computer Energy Optimization. 
Sec. 305. Removal of benefits for Federal employee convicted of certain of-
fenses. 
Sec. 306. Codification of Office of Management and Budget criteria. 
Sec. 307. Increase energy efficiency of Federal buildings. 
Sec. 308. Reduce redundant health payments for seniors. 
Sec. 309. Efficient Medicare billing. 
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TITLE IV—SAVE IV 
Sec. 401. Short title. 
Sec. 402. Study on challenges identity theft poses for Internal Revenue Service. 
Sec. 403. Study on cost-effective acquisition of medical equipment and supplies 
under the Medicare program. 
Sec. 404. Report on fragmentation of Department of Defense foreign language 
support programs. 
Sec. 405. Audit of Department of Defense by private entity. 
Sec. 406. Preference for contracts with local and State governments for shared 
performance of maintenance and administrative functions at 
military installations. 
TITLE I—SAVE I 
SEC. 100. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Savings, Account-
ability, Value, and Efficiency I Act’’ or the ‘‘SAVE I Act’’. 
Subtitle A—Provisions Relating to 
Federal Property, Federal Con-
tracts, and Information Tech-
nology 
SEC. 101. MANAGEMENT OF FEDERAL EXCESS AND UNDER-
UTILIZED REAL PROPERTY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 5 of subtitle I of title 40, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subchapter: 
‘‘SUBCHAPTER VII—MANAGING FEDERAL 
EXCESS AND UNDERUTILIZED REAL PROPERTY 
‘‘§ 621. National strategy and plan to manage Federal 
excess and underutilized real property 
‘‘(a) NATIONAL STRATEGY.—Not less than 6 months 
after the date of the enactment of this subchapter, and 
every two years thereafter, the Director of the Office of 
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Management and Budget, in consultation with the head 
of each designated agency, shall develop and publish a na-
tional strategy for managing excess property and under-
utilized Federal real property. The national strategy shall 
include the following: 
‘‘(1) A statement of purpose, scope, and meth-
odology. 
‘‘(2) A definition of excess and underutilized 
Federal real property, along with a list of risk fac-
tors that lead to such property becoming excess or 
underutilized. 
‘‘(3) Goals, subordinate objectives, activities, 
and performance measures, including the milestones 
and timeframes for achieving objectives. 
‘‘(4) Resources, investments, and risk manage-
ment. 
‘‘(5) Organizational roles, responsibilities, and 
coordination. 
‘‘(6) Integration and implementation plans. 
‘‘(7) For each national strategy after the first, 
a description of how the previous national strategy 
has been implemented. 
‘‘(b) DATA.—Not less than 6 months after the date 
of the enactment of this subchapter, and every two years 
thereafter, the Administrator of General Services, in con-
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sultation with the head of each designated agency, shall 
develop and implement a plan to improve the Federal Real 
Property Profile established in accordance with Executive 
Order 13327 (40 U.S.C. 121 note; relating to Federal real 
property asset management), that ensures the data col-
lected is complete, accurate, and consistent. The plan shall 
include the following: 
‘‘(1) Clearly defined data collection require-
ments and consistent data reporting to the database 
across Federal agencies. 
‘‘(2) Designation of performance measures that 
are linked to performance goals and that are con-
sistent with the requirements in Executive Order 
13327, or any amendment to or replacement of such 
Executive order. 
‘‘(3) Recommendations for how Federal agen-
cies can collaborate effectively to provide data when 
determining data collection requirements and lim-
iting the number of measures collected to those de-
termined to be essential, taking into account the cost 
and effort involved in collecting the data when deter-
mining data collection requirements. 
‘‘(4) For each plan after the first, a description 
of how the previous plan has been implemented. 
‘‘(c) SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION.— 
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‘‘(1) SUBMISSION.—The national strategy re-
quired by subsection (a) and the plan required by 
subsection (b) shall be submitted to each committee 
of jurisdiction in the House of Representatives and 
the Senate. 
‘‘(2) OMB PUBLICATION.—The national strat-
egy required by subsection (a) shall be published on 
the Web site of the Office of Management and 
Budget. 
‘‘(3) GSA PUBLICATION.—The plan required by 
subsection (b) shall be published on the Web site of 
the General Services Administration. 
‘‘(d) DESIGNATED AGENCY DEFINED.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘designated agency’ means each agency list-
ed in section 901(b) of title 31.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of chapter 5 of subtitle I of title 40, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘SUBCHAPTER VII—MANAGING FEDERAL EXCESS AND UNDERUTILIZED REAL 
PROPERTY 
‘‘Sec. 
‘‘621. National strategy and plan to manage Federal excess and underutilized 
real property.’’. 
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SEC. 102. PROMOTION OF COMPETITION IN FEDERAL CON-
TRACTING. 
(a) OFFICE OF FEDERAL PROCUREMENT POLICY.— 
Not later than six months after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Administrator for Federal Procurement Pol-
icy shall issue guidance to Federal agencies to reinvigorate 
the role of the competition advocate, consistent with the 
recommendations of the Government Accountability Office 
in its report GAO–10–833 (July 26, 2010). 
(b) ELEMENTS OF GUIDANCE.—The guidance issued 
pursuant to subsection (a) shall include key factors agen-
cies should consider in appointing and utilizing competi-
tion advocates, such as placement within the organization, 
skill set, and potential methods to effectively carry out 
their duties, and shall direct agencies to require their com-
petition advocates to actively involve program offices in 
highlighting opportunities to increase competition. 
SEC. 103. PROMOTION OF STRATEGIC SOURCING IN FED-
ERAL CONTRACTING. 
(a) SAVINGS GOALS.—Not later than six months 
after the date of enactment of this Act, and for 4 years 
annually thereafter, the Director of the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget shall issue Government-wide savings 
goals for the strategic sourcing of goods and services by 
executive agencies required to designate or appoint a Chief 
Financial Officer as set forth in section 901 of title 31. 
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The Director may issue goals required by this section that 
are customized to individual agencies or sourcing efforts. 
(b) MATTERS COVERED.—In complying with sub-
section (a), the Director shall provide at a minimum— 
(1) guidance to executive agencies on calcu-
lating savings generated from strategic sourcing ef-
forts; and 
(2) standards to measure progress towards 
meeting savings goals established by subsection (a). 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 5 years after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Director shall submit to Con-
gress a report on the extent of savings realized through 
the strategic sourcing of goods and services by executive 
agencies during the period Government-wide savings goals 
are required to be issued pursuant to subsection (a). 
SEC. 104. STRENGTHENING OVERSIGHT OF INFORMATION 
TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS. 
Section 11303(b) of title 40, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraph (5) as para-
graph (6); and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (4) the fol-
lowing new paragraph (5): 
‘‘(5) ANALYSES
OF
INVESTMENTS
IN
OPER-
ATIONS AND MAINTENANCE.—The Director shall re-
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quire each executive agency to develop a policy con-
sistent with OMB guidance for performing analysis 
on each operational/steady state information tech-
nology investment to measure how well the invest-
ment is achieving expected cost, schedule, perform-
ance, and other goals, and to determine whether the 
investment provides the most cost effective way of 
delivering business value. The agencies shall conduct 
these operational analyses on a yearly basis and 
shall report the results to the Director and through 
existing or newly developed transparency mecha-
nisms.’’. 
Subtitle B—Other Matters 
SEC. 111. RESCISSION OF UNOBLIGATED BUDGET AUTHOR-
ITY FOR DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ATVM 
LOAN PROGRAM. 
Of the funds made available by section 129 of the 
Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Con-
tinuing Appropriations Act, 2009, Public Law 110–329, 
the unobligated balance is hereby rescinded. 
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SEC. 112. REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF CERTAIN 
MEDICARE AND MEDICAID FRAUD DETEC-
TION AND PROGRAM INTEGRITY PROVISIONS. 
Section 1128J(a)(1)(A) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1320a–7k(a)(1)(A)) is amended by adding at 
the end the following new clause: 
‘‘(iii) REPORT ON INTEGRATED DATA 
REPOSITORY
AND
ONE
PROGRAM
INTEG-
RITY SYSTEM.—Not later than six months 
after the date of enactment of this clause, 
the Secretary shall submit to the appro-
priate congressional committees a report 
on the following: 
‘‘(I) INTEGRATED DATA REPOSI-
TORY.—Efforts to finalize plans and 
schedules for fully implementing and 
expanding the use of the Integrated 
Data Repository, including actions 
taken to finalize, implement, and 
manage plans for incorporating data 
into the Integrated Data Repository 
and actions taken to define measur-
able financial benefits expected from 
the implementation of the Integrated 
Data Repository. 
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‘‘(II) ONE PROGRAM INTEGRITY 
SYSTEM.—Actions 
taken 
to 
plan, 
schedule, and conduct training on the 
One Program Integrity System, a 
Web-based portal and suite of soft-
ware tools used to analyze and extract 
data from the Integrated Data Repos-
itory, and actions taken to define 
measurable financial benefits expected 
from the use of the One Program In-
tegrity System.’’. 
SEC. 113. STUDY AND REPORT ON THE ENHANCEMENT OF 
AGRICULTURAL QUARANTINE AND INSPEC-
TION FEES. 
(a) STUDY.—The Secretary of Agriculture shall con-
duct a study to ensure that the amount of the fees col-
lected under section 2509(a) of the Food, Agriculture, 
Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (21 U.S.C. 136a(a)) 
is commensurate with the aggregate costs of agricultural 
quarantine and inspections services provided with respect 
to the entry into the United States of commercial aircraft 
or other vehicles. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture 
shall submit to Congress a report that contains— 
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