National Information Disclosure Month Act

National Information Disclosure Month Act - Expresses the sense of the Congress that all Federal agencies that have responsibilities with respect to health, safety, payments to individuals, delivery of services to consumers, and national defense issues shall participate, and all State, local, or private agencies or organizations having responsibilities with respect to those issues shall be encouraged to participate, in a National Summer of Community Conversation which will take place across the country in June, July, and August of 1999 to provide information to the public about their Y2K readiness.

Requires that all such Federal agencies and all such State, local, or private agencies or organizations be encouraged to participate in a National Y2K Disclosure Month during July 1999, to disclose the readiness of mission critical computer systems in those areas for January 1, 2000, and to disclose contingency planning efforts associated with those systems and advance notice of problems that may occur on such day with such computer systems, with the interoperation of such computer systems, or both.

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1884 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1884

 To provide for the disclosure of the readiness of certain Federal and 
    non-Federal computer systems for the year 2000 computer problem.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 20, 1999

  Mr. Ford (for himself, Mr. Holden, Mr. Cummings, Mrs. Thurman, Mr. 
 Underwood, and Mr. Thompson of Mississippi) introduced the following 
          bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for the disclosure of the readiness of certain Federal and 
    non-Federal computer systems for the year 2000 computer problem.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Information Disclosure 
Month Act''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL SUMMER OF COMMUNITY CONVERSATION.

    It is the sense of the Congress that all Federal agencies that have 
responsibilities with respect to health, safety, payments to 
individuals, delivery of services to consumers, and national defense 
issues shall participate, and all State, local, or private agencies or 
organizations having responsibilities with respect to those issues 
shall be encouraged to participate, in a National Summer of Community 
Conversation which will take place across the country in June, July, 
and August of 1999 to provide information to the public about their Y2K 
readiness.

SEC. 3. NATIONAL DISCLOSURE MONTH.

    All Federal agencies that have responsibilities with respect to 
health, safety, payments to individuals, delivery of services to 
consumers, and national defense issues shall participate, and all 
State, local, or private agencies or organizations having 
responsibilities with respect to those issues shall be encouraged to 
participate, in a National Y2K Disclosure Month during July 1999, to 
disclose the readiness of mission critical computer systems in those 
areas for January 1, 2000, and to disclose contingency planning efforts 
associated with those systems and advance notice of problems that may 
occur on such day with such computer systems, with the interoperation 
of such computer systems, or both.
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