Paperwork Assistance Act

Paperwork Assistance Act - Requires a federal agency to inform any person receiving a collection of information from the agency of the agency's contact information, including a website and a telephone number, by which a person may obtain a specific contact person responsible for answering questions about the information collection and other information to assist in responding to the information collection.

Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to include in the Director's annual report on information policy activities: (1) the status of implementation by agencies of the requirements of this Act; and (2) a description of how each agency has responded to complaints related to the agency's compliance with such requirements.

Makes this Act's contact information requirements applicable to new or revised collections of information approved by the Director beginning one year after enactment.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
[H.R. 6113 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6113

   To amend title 44, United States Code, to require each agency to 
  include a contact telephone number in its collection of information.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 21, 2008

Mrs. Boyda of Kansas introduced the following bill; which was referred 
          to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 44, United States Code, to require each agency to 
  include a contact telephone number in its collection of information.

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

SECTION 1. AGENCY CONTACT INFORMATION REQUIREMENT.

    Section 3506(c)(1)(B)(iii) of title 44, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in subclause (IV) by striking ``and'' at the end; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                                    ``(VI) the agency's contact 
                                telephone number; and''.

SEC. 2. STUDY AND REPORT.

    Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Comptroller General shall--
            (1) conduct a study on--
                    (A) the number of complaints made to an agency or 
                other entity by a person receiving the collection of 
                information from an agency with respect to such 
                agency's contact telephone number, or lack thereof; and
                    (B) the status of the resolution of such complaints 
                by such agency; and
            (2) submit a report on the findings of such study to each 
        House of Congress.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by section 1 shall take effect 1 year after the 
date of enactment of this Act.
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