§3520A Chief Data Officer Council

Summary

Creates a Chief Data Officer Council inside the Office of Management and Budget. The Council must set governmentwide best practices for using, protecting, sharing, and creating data; promote data-sharing agreements; help agencies produce better evidence for policymaking; consult the public and private users about access to federal data; and find and test new technology for data work. Each agency’s Chief Data Officer is a member. The OMB Director picks the Chair. The Administrator of the Office of Electronic Government is a member, and the Director names a representative for Chief Information Officers and Evaluation Officers who serves on the Council because of that job. The Council must deliver a report every two years to the Director, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Not later than 4 years after the law is enacted, the Comptroller General must report to Congress on whether the Council’s added duties improved evidence use and program evaluation. The Council ends, and this law is repealed, two years after that Comptroller General report.