US Congress House Bill 1770 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-2)
Status: Introduced on March 29 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-03-29 - Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Pending: House Oversight And Government Reform Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

OPEN Government Data Act Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary Government Data Act This bill requires open government data assets made available by federal agencies (excluding the Government Accountability Office, the Federal Election Commission, and certain other government entities) to be published as machine-readable data. When not otherwise prohibited by law, and to the extent practicable, public data assets and nonpublic data assets maintained by the federal government must be available: (1) in an open format that does not impede use or reuse and that has standards maintained by a standards organization; and (2) under open licenses with a legal guarantee that the data be available at no cost to the public with no restrictions on copying, publishing, distributing, transmitting, citing, or adapting. If published government data assets are not available under an open license, the data must be considered part of the worldwide public domain. Agencies may engage with outside organizations and citizens to leverage public data assets for innovation in public and private sectors. Agencies must: (1) make their enterprise data inventories available to the public on Data.gov, and (2) designate a point of contact to assist the public and respond to complaints about adherence to open data requirements. For privacy, security, confidentiality, or regulatory reasons, agencies may maintain a nonpublic portion of their inventories. The General Services Administration must maintain a single public interface online as a point of entry dedicated to sharing open government data with the public. The Office of Management and Budget must develop and maintain an online repository of tools, best practices, and schema standards to facilitate the adoption of open data practices.

OPEN Government Data Act Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary Government Data Act

Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]	Rep. Blake Farenthold [R-TX]	Rep. Will Hurd [R-TX]	Rep. Jim Cooper [D-TN]
Rep. Daniel Lipinski [D-IL]	Rep. Seth Moulton [D-MA]	Rep. Kathleen Rice [D-NY]	Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA]
Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Robin Kelly [D-IL]	Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]	Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi [D-IL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-29	House	Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
2017-03-29	House	Introduced in House

SB760 (Same As) 2017-07-24 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 180.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1770/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr1770/BILLS-115hr1770ih.pdf