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MEGABYTE Act of 2016 Making Electronic Government Accountable By Yielding Tangible Efficiencies Act of 2016 This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue a directive to each executive agency to develop a comprehensive software licensing policy, which shall: (1) require each agency to establish a comprehensive inventory of software licenses; (2) track and maintain such licenses; (3) analyze software usage to make cost-effective decisions; (4) provide software license management training; (5) establish goals and objectives of the agency's software license management program; and (6) consider the software license management life cycle phases to implement effective decision making and incorporate existing standards, processes, and metrics. Each executive agency must report to OMB each fiscal year through FY2018 on the savings from improved software license management.

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Bill Cassidy (R)*,  Thad Cochran (R),  Gary Peters (D), 

Held at the desk. (on 07/08/2016)

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