Inspector General Recommendation Transparency Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-3109
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Heitkamp, Heidi [D-ND]
Introduced: 2016-06-29
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight

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Latest action: action_date: 2016-06-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-06-29
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Inspector General Recommendation Transparency Act of 2016</strong></p> <p>This bill amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 to require each Inspector General, within one year after the first deadline for the semiannual report on its activities after enactment of this bill, to make available on its website a list of any recommendations by such Inspector General that have been open for more than one year. An &quot;open&quot; recommendation is one that has been made publicly available on such website but has not been adopted or implemented by such Inspector General's establishment.</p> <p>The list shall include:</p> <ul> <li>the number of recommendations issued by the Inspector General for the fiscal year and the number that are open, </li> <li> each report in which an open recommendation was issued,</li> <li> the assigned number and a short description of each open recommendation,</li> <li> the date the open recommendation was first issued and its current status, and</li> <li> any comments of the Inspector General relating to why the recommendation remains open and any response from the establishment.</li> </ul> <p>The list shall be updated by the Inspector General at least every six months.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3109 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 29, 2016 Ms. Heitkamp (for herself and Mr. Lankford ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs A BILL To require Inspectors General to make open recommendations publicly available.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Inspector General Recommendation Transparency Act of 2016 . 2. Inspector General open recommendations Section 5 of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (f) as subsection (g); and (2) by inserting after subsection (e) the following: (f) (1) Not later than 1 year after the first semiannual reporting deadline described in subsection (a) that occurs after the date of enactment of this subsection, each Inspector General shall make available on the website of the Office of the Inspector General a list of any open recommendations for the establishment that have been open for more than 1 year. (2) The list required under paragraph shall— (A) include, at a minimum— (i) the number of recommendations issued by the Inspector General for the fiscal year; (ii) the number of recommendations described in clause (i) that are open recommendations; (iii) the title of each report in which an open recommendation was issued; (iv) the assigned number of each open recommendation, as designated within a report described in clause (iii); (v) a short description of the open recommendation; (vi) the date on which the open recommendation was first issued; (vii) the current status of the open recommendation, such as whether the recommendation remains open or has been partially implemented, or if the agency has expressed that the recommendation is expected to be implemented soon; (viii) if available, any comments of the Inspector General relating to why the recommendation remains open; and (ix) if available, any response from the establishment relating to why the recommendation remains open; and (B) be updated by the Inspector General not less frequently than once every 6 months. (3) In this subsection, the term open recommendation means a recommendation issued by an Inspector General and made publicly available, in accordance with section 8M(b)(1)(A), that has not been adopted or implemented by the establishment of the Inspector General. .