Senate, and the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate— 
‘‘(A) a draft list of programs to be as-
sessed during the coming fiscal year; and 
‘‘(B) the criteria and methodology that will 
be used to assess the programs; 
‘‘(2) provide a mechanism for interested per-
sons, including members and committees of Con-
gress, to comment on the programs being assessed 
and the criteria and methodology that will be used 
to assess the programs; and 
‘‘(3) along with the head of each agency, place 
a special emphasis on the advantages of assessing 
during the same fiscal year any programs that are 
performing similar functions, serve similar popu-
lations, have similar purposes, or share common ob-
jectives, for purposes of identifying common chal-
lenges, exemplary goals and practices, common 
measures of performance, and potential opportuni-
ties for the integration and consolidation of Federal 
functions. 
‘‘(d) FINAL LIST OF PROGRAMS TO BE ASSESSED.— 
By May 1 of each year, the Director of the Office of Man-
agement and Budget shall make available, through the Of-
fice of Management and Budget website, and provide to 
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the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of 
the House of Representatives, the Committee on Home-
land Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, 
and the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate— 
‘‘(1) a final list of programs to be assessed dur-
ing the coming fiscal year; and 
‘‘(2) the criteria and methodology that will be 
used to assess the programs. 
‘‘(e) COORDINATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AS-
SESSMENT TEAMS.—In conducting an assessment of a 
program under subsection (a), the head of the relevant 
agency shall collaborate with the Director of the Office 
of Management and Budget to establish assessment teams 
to assess the program’s purpose, strategic plan and objec-
tives, organizational design, management, efficiency, and 
effectiveness in achieving its performance objectives, and 
such other matters as the head of the agency considers 
appropriate, and identify the program’s strengths and 
weaknesses and factors impeding or contributing to pro-
gram successes. 
‘‘(f) ASSESSMENT REPORTS.—(1) The results of the 
assessments conducted during a fiscal year shall be sub-
mitted by the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget in a report to Congress at the same time that the 
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President submits the next budget under section 1105 of 
this title after the end of that fiscal year. 
‘‘(2) The assessment report for each program shall— 
‘‘(A) include— 
‘‘(i) a brief summary of the program pur-
poses, objectives, and performance goals, as well 
as key findings of the assessment; 
‘‘(ii) an assessment of the clarity of the 
program’s purpose and the soundness of the 
program’s organizational design and approach 
to achieving specific long-term goals; 
‘‘(iii) an assessment of the quality of the 
program’s measurable long-term and annual 
performance measures, and the extent to which 
necessary performance data are collected; 
‘‘(iv) an assessment of the extent to which 
managers are held accountable for achieving 
program results, and the extent to which strong 
financial management tools are in place; 
‘‘(v) an assessment of the program’s effi-
ciency and effectiveness in achieving long-term 
and annual performance objectives; and 
‘‘(vi) a summary of how the program’s 
strengths and weaknesses are impeding or con-
tributing to its failures or successes, including 
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the reasons for any substantial variation from 
the targeted level of performance of the pro-
gram; 
‘‘(B) describe the extent to which any trends, 
developments, or emerging conditions affect the need 
to change the mission of the program or the way 
that the program is being carried out; 
‘‘(C) identify, within any program assessed, the 
best practices conducted in the program for allo-
cating resources in an efficient and effective manner 
that resulted in positive outcomes, and the key rea-
sons why such practices resulted in positive out-
comes; 
‘‘(D) include recommendations for program 
modifications to improve the results that each pro-
gram achieves, with a special focus on opportunities 
that might exist for the consolidation and integra-
tion of programs and authorities, along with an ex-
planation of each change and a description of its ef-
fect on program operations, costs, and effectiveness; 
‘‘(E) describe any significant limitations in the 
assessments; and 
‘‘(F) be available in a searchable, online data-
base through the Office of Management and Budget 
website. 
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‘‘(g) IMPROVEMENT PLANS.—(1) Following the sub-
mission of any assessment report, the Director of the Of-
fice of Management and Budget, acting through the Dep-
uty Director for Management, shall work with the relevant 
agency to develop an improvement plan that responds to 
the assessment report and that identifies follow-up actions 
to improve the performance of the program covered by the 
assessment report. 
‘‘(2) Within 90 days after submission of an assess-
ment report, the Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget shall make the improvement plan relating to 
the report available, through the Office of Management 
and Budget website, and submit copies of the improve-
ment plan to the Committee on Oversight and Government 
Reform of the House of Representatives, the Committee 
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 
Senate, and the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate. 
‘‘(3) Each improvement plan for a program shall in-
clude management, organizational, or operational reforms 
the agency will implement to improve the performance of 
the program. 
‘‘(4) The head of the relevant agency, in collaboration 
with the Director of the Office of Management and Budg-
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et, shall oversee the implementation of improvement plans 
for programs in the agency. 
‘‘(5) The Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget shall make improvement plans available in a 
searchable, electronic form through the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget website. The plans shall be updated pe-
riodically to reflect the status of follow-up actions. 
‘‘(h) CRITERIA
FOR
MORE
FREQUENT
ASSESS-
MENTS.—The Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget shall make every effort to assess programs more 
frequently than required under subsection (a) in cases in 
which programs are determined to be of higher priority, 
special circumstances exist, improvements have been 
made, or it is determined that more frequent assessment 
is warranted. 
‘‘(i) INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT.—Each year, fol-
lowing the release of assessment reports, the Inspector 
General of each agency shall submit to Congress, and post 
on the website of the Inspector General, a report on the 
agency’s implementation of the requirements of this sec-
tion and on the strengths, weaknesses, and limitations of 
the agency’s assessment process, as well as the quality of 
the agency’s assessment reports and improvement plans. 
‘‘(j) GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE EVAL-
UATIONS AND REPORTS.— 
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‘‘(1) EVALUATIONS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—After the end of each 
of the first, second, and third fiscal years with 
respect to which the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget submits one or more 
assessment reports under subsection (f), the 
Comptroller General of the United States shall 
evaluate the implementation of this section, 
with emphasis on the matters specified in sub-
paragraph (B). 
‘‘(B) MATTERS TO BE EVALUATED.—The 
matters to be evaluated under subparagraph 
(A) are as follows, with respect to the fiscal 
year covered by the evaluation: 
‘‘(i) The criteria and methodology 
used to conduct program assessments. 
‘‘(ii) The limitations of the assessment 
process. 
‘‘(iii) The quality of assessment re-
ports and improvement plans. 
‘‘(iv) Agency efforts to implement fol-
low-up actions identified in program im-
provement plans. 
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‘‘(v) The level of engagement between 
congressional stakeholders and executive 
branch agencies. 
‘‘(vi) The use of data produced 
through the assessment process. 
‘‘(vii) The effectiveness of assessment 
teams, agency performance improvement 
officers, and the Performance Improve-
ment Council in improving agency per-
formance management efforts. 
‘‘(2) REPORTS.—The Comptroller General shall 
submit to Congress a report on the results of each 
evaluation conducted under paragraph (1). The re-
port shall include a list of recommendations on ways 
to improve the assessment process and the oper-
ations of agency performance improvement officers 
and the Performance Improvement Council. 
‘‘(k) CLASSIFIED INFORMATION.—(1) With respect 
to program assessments conducted during a fiscal year 
that contain classified information, the President shall 
submit on the same date as the report is submitted under 
subsection (g)— 
‘‘(A) a copy of each such assessment (including 
the classified information), to the appropriate com-
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mittees of jurisdiction of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate; and 
‘‘(B) consistent with statutory law governing 
the disclosure of classified information, an appendix 
containing a list of each such assessment and the 
committees to which a copy of the assessment was 
submitted under subparagraph (A), to the Com-
mittee on Oversight and Government Reform of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 
Senate. 
‘‘(2) Upon request from the Committee on Oversight 
and Government Reform of the House of Representatives 
or the Committee on Homeland Security and Govern-
mental Affairs of the Senate, the Director of the Office 
of Management and Budget shall, consistent with statu-
tory law governing the disclosure of classified information, 
provide to the Committee a copy of— 
‘‘(A) any assessment described in subparagraph 
(A) of paragraph (1) (including any evaluation not 
listed in any appendix submitted under subpara-
graph (B) of such paragraph); and 
‘‘(B) any appendix described in subparagraph 
(B) of paragraph (1). 
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‘‘(3) In this subsection, the term ‘classified informa-
tion’ refers to matters described in section 552(b)(1)(A) 
of title 5. 
‘‘(l) INHERENTLY GOVERNMENTAL FUNCTIONS.— 
The functions and activities authorized or required by this 
section shall be considered inherently Governmental func-
tions and shall be performed only by Federal employees. 
‘‘(m) TERMINATION.—The requirements of this sec-
tion shall terminate on September 30, 2019.’’. 
(b) GUIDANCE.—Not later than 6 months after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Of-
fice of Management and Budget shall prescribe guidance 
to implement the requirements of section 1120 of title 31, 
United States Code, as added by subsection (a), including 
guidance on a definition of the term ‘‘program’’. 
(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of chapter 11 of title 31, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘1120. Program assessment.’’. 
SEC. 6. STRATEGIC PLANNING AMENDMENTS. 
(a) CHANGE IN DEADLINE FOR STRATEGIC PLAN.— 
Subsection (a) of section 306 of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended by striking ‘‘No later than September 
30, 2007,’’ and inserting ‘‘Not later than September 30 
of each year following a year in which an election for 
President occurs, beginning with September 30, 2009,’’. 
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(b) CHANGE IN PERIOD OF COVERAGE OF STRA-
TEGIC PLAN.—Subsection (b) of section 306 of title 5, 
United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(b) Each strategic plan shall cover the four-year pe-
riod beginning on October 1 of the year following a year 
in which an election for President occurs.’’. 
SEC. 7. IMPROVING GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE. 
(a) IMPROVING
GOVERNMENT
PERFORMANCE.— 
Chapter 11 of title 31, United States Code, as amended 
by section 4, is further amended by adding at the end the 
following new section: 
‘‘§ 1121. Improving government performance 
‘‘(a) DUTIES OF AGENCY PERFORMANCE IMPROVE-
MENT OFFICERS.—Subject to the direction of the head of 
the agency, each agency performance improvement officer 
shall— 
‘‘(1) supervise the performance management ac-
tivities of the agency, including development of the 
agency’s strategic plans, annual performance plans, 
and annual performance reports as required by law; 
‘‘(2) advise the head of the agency, with respect 
to a program administered in whole or in part by the 
agency, whether— 
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‘‘(A) the performance plans required under 
section 1115 of this title and the strategic plans 
required under section 306 of title 5 are— 
‘‘(i) sufficiently aggressive toward full 
achievement of the purposes of the pro-
gram; and 
‘‘(ii) realistic in light of authority and 
resources provided for the operation of the 
program; and 
‘‘(B) means for measurement of progress 
toward achievement of the goals are sufficiently 
rigorous and accurate; 
‘‘(3) convene relevant agency personnel regu-
larly throughout each year to— 
‘‘(A) assess the performance of programs 
administered in whole or in part by the agency; 
and 
‘‘(B) consider means to improve the per-
formance and efficiency of programs; 
‘‘(4) assist the head of the agency in the devel-
opment and use within the agency of performance 
measures in personnel performance appraisals, and, 
as appropriate, other agency personnel and planning 
processes; and 
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‘‘(5) assist the head of the agency in overseeing 
the implementation of the improvement plans re-
quired under section 1120 of this title. 
‘‘(b) ESTABLISHMENT
AND OPERATION
OF PER-
FORMANCE IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL.— 
‘‘(1) The Director shall establish, within the Of-
fice of Management and Budget for administrative 
purposes only, a Performance Improvement Council, 
in accordance with this section. 
‘‘(2) The Performance Improvement Council 
shall consist exclusively of— 
‘‘(A) the Deputy Director for Management 
of the Office of Management and Budget, who 
shall serve as Chair; 
‘‘(B) such agency performance improve-
ment officers as determined appropriate by the 
Chair; and 
‘‘(C) such other full-time or permanent 
part-time employees of an agency as determined 
appropriate by the Chair with the concurrence 
of the head of the agency concerned. 
‘‘(3) The Chair or the Chair’s designee shall 
convene and preside at the meetings of the Perform-
ance Improvement Council, determine its agenda, di-
rect its work, and establish and direct subgroups of 
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the Performance Improvement Council, as appro-
priate to deal with particular subject matters, that 
shall consist exclusively of members of the Perform-
ance Improvement Council. 
‘‘(4) To assist in implementing the require-
ments of sections 1115, 1116, 1117, 1120, and 
9703 of this title and section 306 of title 5, the Per-
formance Improvement Council shall— 
‘‘(A) develop and submit to the Director of 
the Office of Management and Budget, or when 
appropriate to the President through the Direc-
tor of the Office of Management and Budget, at 
times and in such formats as the Chair may 
specify, recommendations concerning— 
‘‘(i) performance management policies 
and requirements; and 
‘‘(ii) criteria for evaluation of program 
performance; 
‘‘(B) facilitate the exchange among agen-
cies of information on performance manage-
ment, including strategic and annual planning 
and reporting, to accelerate improvements in 
program performance; 
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‘‘(C) monitor the assessments of Federal 
programs required under section 1120 of this 
title; 
‘‘(D) to facilitate keeping the public in-
formed, and with such assistance of heads of 
agencies and agency performance improvement 
officers as the Director of the Office of Man-
agement and Budget may require, develop an 
Internet website that provides the public with 
information on how well each agency performs 
and that serves as a comprehensive source of 
information on— 
‘‘(i) agency strategic plans; 
‘‘(ii) annual performance plans and 
annual performance reports; 
‘‘(iii) program assessment reports re-
quired under section 1120 of this title; 
‘‘(iv) the status of the implementation 
of improvement plans required under sec-
tion 1120 of this title; and 
‘‘(v) consistent with the direction of 
the head of the agency concerned after 
consultation with the Director of the Office 
of Management and Budget, any publicly 
available reports by the agency’s Inspector 
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General concerning agency program per-
formance; 
‘‘(E) monitor implementation by agencies 
of the policy set forth in sections 1115, 1116, 
1117, 1120, and 9703 of this title and section 
306 of title 5 and report thereon from time to 
time as appropriate to the Director of the Of-
fice of Management and Budget, or when ap-
propriate to the President through the Director 
of the Office of Management and Budget, at 
such times and in such formats as the Chair 
may specify, together with any recommenda-
tions of the Council for more effective imple-
mentation of such policy; and 
‘‘(F) obtain information and advice, as ap-
propriate, in a manner that seeks individual ad-
vice and does not involve collective judgment or 
consensus advice or deliberation, from— 
‘‘(i) State, local, territorial, and tribal 
officials; and 
‘‘(ii) representatives of entities or 
other individuals. 
‘‘(5)(A) To the extent permitted by law, the Of-
fice of Management and Budget shall provide the 
funding and administrative support the Council 
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needs, as determined by the Director of the Office 
of Management and Budget, to implement this sec-
tion. 
‘‘(B) The heads of agencies shall provide, as ap-
propriate and to the extent permitted by law, such 
information and assistance as the Chair may request 
to implement this section.’’. 
(b) GUIDANCE.—Not later than 6 months after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Of-
fice of Management and Budget shall prescribe guidance 
to implement the requirements of section 1121 of title 31, 
United States Code, as added by subsection (a). 
(c) CONFORMING AND CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) Section 1115(g) of title 31, United States 
Code, is amended by striking ‘‘1119’’ and inserting 
‘‘1121’’. 
(2) The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 11 of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘1121. Improving Government Performance.’’. 
Æ 
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