PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

Within 180 days of enactment, each executive agency must send the Administrator of General Services and post on its own website the agency’s written rules for using excess personal property. The rules must say the agency must check for excess items before buying new ones, explain when to look for and get excess property, show how to judge if items will work, and name who is responsible for searching. If the agency changes those rules, it must send the update to the Administrator of General Services and update its website.

Title 40, §530

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(a)Initial Report.—

Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this section, each executive agency shall submit to the Administrator of General Services and make publicly available on the website of the executive agency the internal guidance of the executive agency on considering using excess personal property to meet the needs of the executive agency, which shall include—

(1)a requirement to consider excess personal property before buying new;

(2)when it is practicable to check for and obtain excess personal property;

(3)how to evaluate the suitability of excess personal property for use; and

(4)defined roles and responsibilities relevant to considering the use of excess personal property, including the designation of an employee as responsible for searching through available excess personal property for items that meet the needs of the executive agency.

(b)Updates.—

Each executive agency shall submit to the Administrator of General Services and update on the website of the executive agency any changes to the internal guidance submitted and made available under subsection (a).

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Repeal of Section Pub. L. 118–99, § 2(e)(2), Oct. 1, 2024, 138 Stat. 1579, provided that, effective on the date that is 5 years after Oct. 1, 2024, this section is repealed.

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The date of enactment of this section, referred to in subsec. (a), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 118–99, which was approved Oct. 1, 2024.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of Repeal Pub. L. 118–99, § 2(e), Oct. 1, 2024, 138 Stat. 1579, provided that the repeal of this section by section 2(e)(2) is effective on the date that is 5 years after Oct. 1, 2024.

§530 Internal Guidance on Excess Personal Property