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By: FEDweek StaffThe Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has advanced a number of bills affecting agency management practices that it had cleared in the prior Congress but that fell short of enactment:
• S-111, to require each agency, in providing notice of a rule making, to include a link to a 100-word plain language summary of the proposed rule.
• S-211, to o establish pilot program that allows federal agencies to lease underutilized properties with GSA approval and to use the rent payments to help fund capital projects and facilities maintenance.
• S-349, to include positions that may be performed by telework in a hiring preference for federal jobs for a spouse of a member of the armed forces on active duty, the spouse of a 100 percent disabled member of the armed forces, or the spouse of a deceased member of the armed forces.
• S-666, to require agencies to identify wasteful or duplicative programs to potentially eliminate based guidance OMB would issue and to publicly identify them in the federal program inventory and notify Congress. Agencies then would submit recommendations to Congress for legislation to consolidate or eliminate those programs.
• S-709, to update the Government Performance and Results Act by requiring OMB to regularly conduct strategic reviews of agencies’ performance goals and ensure they are following through with their strategic plans and enhance the data on performance.gov.
• S-717, to expand the types of information agencies must publish publicly in plain writing to include nearly all information, guidance, instructions, and other public materials are drafted in plain writing.
• S-780, to require a GAO review of each committee-reported bill to determine a risk of duplicating or overlapping with an existing program, office, or initiative previously identified in a GAO duplication, fragmentation, and overlap report.
• S-933, to require OMB, GSA and the CIO Council to issue new minimum requirements for cybersecurity, resiliency, availability, and sustainability of federal data centers and to issue policies requiring agencies to apply those standards to both existing and new centers.
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