§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; encourage data-sharing agreements between agencies; find ways to improve evidence and program evaluation for policymaking; talk with the public and private users to improve access to federal data; and look for new technology to collect and use data better. Each agency’s Chief Data Officer is a member. The 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 also serves on the Council. The Council must send 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. The Comptroller General must give Congress a report within 4 years after this section was enacted. The Council ends and this section is repealed two years after that Comptroller General report is submitted.