SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Government Information 
Transparency Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DATA STANDARD REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—The Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget shall adopt a single data standard 
for the collection, analysis, and dissemination of business 
and financial information for use by private sector entities 
in accordance with section 3 for information required to 
be reported to the Federal Government, and a single data 
standard for use by agencies within the Federal Government 
in accordance with section 4 for Federal financial informa-
tion. 
(b) CHARACTERISTICS
OF DATA STANDARDS.—The 
single data standards required by subsection (a) shall— 
(1) be common across all agencies, to the max-
imum extent practicable; 
(2) be a widely accepted, open source, non-pro-
prietary, searchable, computer-readable format for 
business and financial data; 
(3) be consistent with and implement— 
(A) United States generally accepted ac-
counting principles or Federal financial account-
ing standards (as appropriate); 
(B) industry best practices; and 
(C) Federal regulatory requirements; 
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(4) improve the transparency, consistency, and 
usability of business and financial information; and 
(5) be capable of being continually upgraded to 
be of maximum use as technologies and content evolve 
over time. 
SEC. 3. IMPLEMENTATION OF SINGLE DATA STANDARD FOR 
PRIVATE SECTOR. 
(a) OMB GUIDANCE.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget shall issue guidance to 
agencies on the use and implementation of the single data 
standard required by section 2 for information required to 
be reported to agencies by the private sector. 
(b) AGENCY REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) REQUIREMENT.—To the maximum extent 
practicable and consistent with the guidance provided 
by the Office of Management and Budget under sub-
section (a), the head of each agency shall require the 
use of the single data standard required by section 2 
for business and financial information reported to the 
agency by private sector companies. 
(2) IMPLEMENTATION.—The head of the agency 
shall begin implementing the requirement of para-
graph (1) within one year after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. 
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SEC. 4. IMPLEMENTATION OF SINGLE DATA STANDARD FOR 
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 
(a) OMB DEVELOPMENT.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget shall develop the single 
data standard required by section 2 for use by agencies 
within the Federal Government for Federal financial infor-
mation. 
(b) OMB GUIDANCE.—Not later than 18 months after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director shall issue 
guidance to agencies on the use and implementation of the 
single data standard developed under subsection (a). 
SEC. 5. PUBLIC ACCESS TO DATA. 
The head of each agency shall ensure that information 
collected using the single data standards required under this 
Act is accessible to the general public in that format to the 
extent permitted by law. 
SEC. 6. REPORT. 
Within one year after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
shall submit to the Committee on Oversight and Govern-
ment Reform of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of 
the Senate a report on the status of the implementation of 
this Act. 
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SEC. 7. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) AGENCY.—The term ‘‘agency’’ means any ex-
ecutive department, military department, Government 
corporation, Government controlled corporation, inde-
pendent establishment, or other establishment in the 
executive branch of the Government (including the 
Executive Office of the President), or any independent 
regulatory agency, but does not include— 
(A) the Government Accountability Office; 
(B) the Federal Election Commission; 
(C) the governments of the District of Co-
lumbia and of the territories and possessions of 
the United States, and their various subdivi-
sions; or 
(D) Government-owned contractor-operated 
facilities, including laboratories engaged in na-
tional defense research and production activities. 
(2) EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, MILITARY DEPART-
MENT, 
GOVERNMENT
CORPORATION, 
GOVERNMENT 
CONTROLLED
CORPORATION, INDEPENDENT
ESTAB-
LISHMENT.—The 
terms 
‘‘Executive 
department’’, 
‘‘military department’’, ‘‘Government corporation’’, 
‘‘Government controlled corporation’’, and ‘‘inde-
pendent establishment’’ have the meanings given those 
terms by chapter 1 of title 5, United States Code. 
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(3) INDEPENDENT
REGULATORY
AGENCY.—The 
term ‘‘independent regulatory agency’’ has the mean-
ing given that term by section 3502(5) of title 44, 
United States Code. 
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Union Calendar No. 133 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2392 
[Report No. 111–239] 
A BILL 
To improve the effectiveness of the Government’s 
collection, analysis, and dissemination of business 
information by using modern interactive data 
technologies. 
JULY 30, 2009 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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