44 U.S.C. § 3520A — Chief Data Officer Council

(a) Establishment. The Office of Management and Budget has a Chief Data^* Officer Council, called the “Council” in this section.

(b) Purpose and functions. The Council must—(1) establish government-wide best practices for using, protecting, sharing, and generating data; (2) promote and encourage data-sharing agreements between agencies; (3) identify ways agencies can improve the production of evidence for policymaking; (4) consult the public and engage private users of government data and other stakeholders about improving access to federal data assets; and (5) identify and evaluate new technology for improving data collection and use.

(c) Membership. (1) Each agency’s Chief Data Officer is a Council member. (2) The Director^* chooses the Chair from the members. (3) The Administrator of the Office of Electronic Government is a member. (4) The Director appoints one representative for all Chief Information Officers and Evaluation Officers; that representative is an ex officio member.

(d) Reports. The Council must give the Director, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee a report every two years about the Council’s work.

(e) Evaluation and termination. (1) No later than four years after the enactment date of this section, the Comptroller General must report to Congress on whether the Council’s additional duties improved the federal government’s use of evidence and program evaluation. (2) The Council must end, and this section must be repealed, when the two-year period beginning on the date the Comptroller General submits that report to Congress expires.