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MEGABYTE Act of 2016 Making Electronic Government Accountable By Yielding Tangible Efficiencies Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue a directive to require the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of each executive agency to develop a comprehensive software licensing policy, which shall: (1) require the CIO of 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. The CIO of each executive agency must report to the OMB, beginning in the first fiscal year after this Act's enactment and in each of the following five fiscal years, on the savings from improved software license management.

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Matt Cartwright (D)*,  Rod Blum (R),  Gerry Connolly (D),  Jim Costa (D),  Elijah Cummings (D),  Scott DesJarlais (R),  Tammy Duckworth (D),  Blake Farenthold (R),  Christopher Gibson (R),  Paul Gosar (R),  Alcee Hastings (D),  Jody Hice (R),  Will Hurd (R),  Dave Joyce (R),  Marcy Kaptur (D),  Robin Kelly (D),  Stephen Knight (R),  Leonard Lance (R),  Ted Lieu (D),  Cynthia Lummis (R),  Carolyn Maloney (D),  David McKinley (R),  Mick Mulvaney (R),  Eleanor Holmes Norton (D),  Gary Palmer (R),  James Renacci (R),  Tom Rice (R),  Steve Russell (R),  Scott Tipton (R), 

Became Public Law No: 114-210. (TXT | PDF) (on 07/29/2016)

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