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By: FEDweek StaffThe House Oversight and Reform Committee has advanced a package of agency management-related bills including:
* HR-262, to require agencies to submit monthly updates to OMB on their regulatory plans, including specific information on expected costs and other economic effects, and to bar agencies from promulgating new rules for which online updates have not been available for at least six months.
* HR-5887, to require OMB to designating a senior official as the federal government service delivery leader to coordinate government-wide efforts to improve service delivery.
* HR-6283, to make changes to pharmacy benefit managers in the FEHB program, including requiring them to only charge a flat fee for drug placement versus letting them continue to charge a percentage of the drug.
* HR-7184, to provide the Congressional Budget Office with an exemption to the Privacy Act to allow it to more easily access data and information maintained by federal agencies that it needs to conduct assessments.
* HR-7219, to require agencies to rely on the best reasonably available scientific, technical, demographic, economic, financial and statistical information to support new rules and guidance.
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