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114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4904 
To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to issue 
a directive on the management of software licenses, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 12, 2016 
Mr. CARTWRIGHT (for himself, Ms. KELLY of Illinois, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. 
TED LIEU of California, Ms. DUCKWORTH, and Mr. CUMMINGS) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Over-
sight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To require the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget to issue a directive on the management of soft-
ware licenses, 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. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Making Electronic 
Government Accountable By Yielding Tangible Effi-
ciencies Act of 2016’’ or the ‘‘MEGABYTE Act of 2016’’. 
SEC. 2. OMB DIRECTIVE ON MANAGEMENT OF SOFTWARE 
LICENSES. 
(a) DEFINITION.—In this section— 
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(1) the term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of 
the Office of Management and Budget; and 
(2) the term ‘‘executive agency’’ has the mean-
ing given that term in section 105 of title 5, United 
States Code. 
(b) OMB DIRECTIVE.—The Director shall issue a di-
rective to require the Chief Information Officer of each 
executive agency to develop a comprehensive software li-
censing policy, which shall— 
(1) identify clear roles, responsibilities, and cen-
tral oversight authority within the executive agency 
for managing enterprise software license agreements 
and commercial software licenses; and 
(2) require the Chief Information Officer of 
each executive agency to— 
(A) establish a comprehensive inventory, 
including 80 percent of software license spend-
ing and enterprise licenses in the executive 
agency, by identifying and collecting informa-
tion about software license agreements using 
automated discovery and inventory tools; 
(B) regularly track and maintain software 
licenses to assist the executive agency in imple-
menting decisions throughout the software li-
cense management life cycle; 
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(C) analyze software usage and other data 
to make cost-effective decisions; 
(D) provide training relevant to software 
license management; 
(E) establish goals and objectives of the 
software license management program of the 
executive agency; and 
(F) consider the software license manage-
ment life cycle phases, including the requisition, 
reception, deployment and maintenance, retire-
ment, and disposal phases, to implement effec-
tive decisionmaking and incorporate existing 
standards, processes, and metrics. 
(c) REPORT
ON
SOFTWARE
LICENSE
MANAGE-
MENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Beginning in the first fiscal 
year beginning after the date of enactment of this 
Act, and in each of the following 5 fiscal years, the 
Chief Information Officer of each executive agency 
shall submit to the Director a report on the financial 
savings or avoidance of spending that resulted from 
improved software license management. 
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(2) AVAILABILITY.—The Director shall make 
each report submitted under paragraph (1) pub-
lically available. 
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