Making Electronic Government Accountable By Yielding Tangible Efficiencies Act of 2016
PL 114-210 (H.R.4904), enacted 07/29/2016

130 STAT. 824 
PUBLIC LAW 114–210—JULY 29, 2016 
Public Law 114–210 
114th Congress 
An Act 
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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 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 Efficiencies Act of 2016’’ or the 
‘‘MEGABYTE Act of 2016’’. 
SEC. 2. OMB DIRECTIVE ON MANAGEMENT OF SOFTWARE LICENSES. 
(a) DEFINITION.—In this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of the Office 
of Management and Budget; and 
(2) the term ‘‘executive agency’’ has the meaning given 
that term in section 105 of title 5, United States Code. 
(b) OMB DIRECTIVE.—The Director shall issue a directive to 
require the Chief Information Officer of each executive agency to 
develop a comprehensive software licensing policy, which shall— 
(1) identify clear roles, responsibilities, and central over-
sight authority within the executive agency for managing enter-
prise 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 spending and enterprise licenses 
in the executive agency, by identifying and collecting 
information about software license agreements using auto-
mated discovery and inventory tools; 
(B) regularly track and maintain software licenses to 
assist the executive agency in implementing decisions 
throughout the software license management life cycle; 
(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 management life cycle 
phases, including the requisition, reception, deployment 
and maintenance, retirement, and disposal phases, to 
implement 
effective 
decisionmaking 
and 
incorporate 
existing standards, processes, and metrics. 
Analysis. 
Inventory. 
Making 
Electronic 
Government 
Accountable By 
Yielding Tangible 
Efficiencies Act 
of 2016. 
40 USC 11302 
note. 
July 29, 2016 
[H.R. 4904] 
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130 STAT. 825 
PUBLIC LAW 114–210—JULY 29, 2016 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 4904 (S. 2340): 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 114–587 (Comm. on Oversight and Government Reform). 
SENATE REPORTS: No. 114–289 (Comm. on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs) accompanying S. 2340. 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 162 (2016): 
June 7, considered and passed House. 
July 14, considered and passed Senate. 
(c) REPORT ON SOFTWARE LICENSE MANAGEMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Beginning in the first fiscal year begin-
ning 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. 
(2) AVAILABILITY.—The Director shall make each report 
submitted under paragraph (1) publically available. 
Approved July 29, 2016. 
Public 
information. 
Effective date. 
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