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‘‘(B) explore opportunities to implement 
modern technologies in reporting relating to Fed-
eral awards; 
‘‘(2) allow the Director to permit exceptions for 
classes of Federal awards, including exceptions for 
Federal awards granted to Indian Tribes and Tribal 
organizations consistent with the Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 
5301 et seq.), if the Director publishes a list of those 
exceptions and submits the list to the Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 
Senate and the Committee on Oversight and Reform 
of the House of Representatives; and 
‘‘(3) take into consideration the consultation re-
quired under section 6402(d). 
‘‘(c) UPDATING GUIDANCE.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not less frequently than once 
every 10 years, the Director shall update the guidance 
issued under subsection (a). 
‘‘(2) 
PROCEDURES.—In 
updating 
guidance 
under paragraph (1), the Director shall, to the max-
imum extent practicable, follow the procedures for the 
development of the data standards and guidance pre-
scribed under this section and section 6402.
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‘‘§ 6404. Agency requirements 
‘‘Not later than 1 year after the date on which guid-
ance is issued or updated under subsection (b) or (c), respec-
tively, of section 6403, the head of each agency shall— 
‘‘(1) ensure that all of the Federal awards that 
the agency issues use data standards for all future in-
formation collection requests; and 
‘‘(2) amend existing information collection re-
quests under chapter 35 of title 44 (commonly known 
as the ‘Paperwork Reduction Act’) to comply with the 
data standards established under section 6402 of this 
chapter, in accordance with the guidance issued by 
the Secretary and the Director under section 6403 of 
this chapter.’’. 
(b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The 
table of chapters for subtitle V of title 31, United States 
Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to 
chapter 63 the following: 
‘‘64. Data standards for grant reporting .................................... 6401’’. 
SEC. 5. SINGLE AUDIT ACT. 
(a) AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) AUDIT REQUIREMENTS.—Section 7502(h) of 
title 31, United States Code, is amended, in the mat-
ter preceding paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘in an elec-
tronic form in accordance with the data standards es-
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tablished under chapter 64 and’’ after ‘‘the reporting 
package,’’. 
(2) REGULATIONS.—Section 7505 of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(d) Such guidance shall require audit-related infor-
mation reported under this chapter to be reported in an 
electronic form in accordance with the data standards es-
tablished under chapter 64.’’. 
(b) GUIDANCE.—Not later than 3 years after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Director shall issue guidance 
requiring audit-related information reported under chapter 
75 of title 31, United States Code, to be reported in an elec-
tronic form consistent with the data standards established 
under chapter 64 of that title, as added by section 4(a) of 
this Act. 
SEC. 6. CONSOLIDATION OF ASSISTANCE-RELATED INFOR-
MATION; PUBLICATION OF PUBLIC INFORMA-
TION AS OPEN DATA. 
(a) COLLECTION OF INFORMATION.—Not later than 5 
years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
and the Director shall, using the data standards established 
under chapter 64 of title 31, United States Code, as added 
by section 4(a) of this Act, enable the collection, public dis-
play, and maintenance of Federal award information as
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a Governmentwide data set, subject to reasonable restric-
tions established by the Director to ensure protection of per-
sonally identifiable information and otherwise sensitive in-
formation. 
(b) PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION.—The Secretary 
and the Director shall require the publication of data re-
ported by recipients of Federal awards that is collected from 
all agencies on a single public portal, which may be an 
existing Governmentwide website, as determined appro-
priate by the Director. 
(c) FOIA.—Nothing in this section shall require the 
disclosure to the public of information that would be exempt 
from disclosure under section 552 of title 5, United States 
Code (commonly known as the ‘‘Freedom of Information 
Act’’). 
SEC. 7. EVALUATION OF NONPROPRIETARY IDENTIFIERS. 
(a) DETERMINATION REQUIRED.—The Director and 
the Secretary shall determine whether to use nonproprietary 
identifiers described in section 6402(a)(3)(B) of title 31, 
United States Code, as added by section 4(a) of this Act. 
(b) FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED.—In making the de-
termination under subsection (a), the Director and the Sec-
retary shall consider factors such as accessibility and cost 
to recipients of Federal awards, agencies that issue Federal 
awards, private sector experts, and members of the public,
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including privacy experts, privacy advocates, transparency 
experts, and transparency advocates. 
(c) PUBLICATION AND REPORT ON DETERMINATION.— 
Not later than the earlier of 1 year after the date of enact-
ment of this Act or the date on which the Director and the 
Secretary establish data standards under section 6402(a)(2) 
of title 31, United States Code, as added by section 4(a) 
of this Act, the Director and the Secretary shall publish and 
submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and Gov-
ernmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Over-
sight and Reform of the House of Representatives a report 
explaining the reasoning for the determination made under 
subsection (a). 
SEC. 8. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. 
Nothing in this Act, or the amendments made by this 
Act, shall be construed to require the collection of data that 
is not otherwise required under any Federal law, rule, or 
regulation. 
SEC. 9. NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS AUTHORIZED. 
No additional funds are authorized to carry out the 
requirements of this Act and the amendments made by this
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Act. Such requirements shall be carried out using amounts 
otherwise authorized. 
Attest: 
Secretary.