Transfers from the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to the Administrator of General Services the responsibility for: (1) maintaining and providing wide access to a computerized information system on domestic assistance programs; and (2) preparing, publishing, and distributing the catalog of domestic assistance programs each year. Requires the Administrator to ensure that the information in the computer system and the catalog is the most current information available.
Requires the Director to collect and provide the Administrator with the information on domestic assistance programs, including the following information which the Director shall also transmit to specified congressional committees: (1) a specification of each formula governing eligibility for assistance or the distribution of assistance under each program; (2) a description of all data and statistical estimates used to carry out each formula; and (3) an identification of the sources of such data and estimates. Grants the Administrator discretion regarding the formula information that shall be included in the catalog or accessible via computer.
Assigns the Director responsibility for overseeing the authorities transferred by this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 98-281.
Committee on Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
Committee on Governmental Affairs. Reported to Senate by Senator Roth under the authority of the order of Aug 4, 83 with amendments. With written report No. 98-216.
Committee on Governmental Affairs. Reported to Senate by Senator Roth under the authority of the order of Aug 4, 83 with amendments. With written report No. 98-216.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 365.
Considered by Senate.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Voice Vote.
Passed Senate with amendments by Voice Vote.
Senate vitiated previous passage.
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Senate incorporated this measure in H.R. 2592 as an amendment.
Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.