Nextgov: Two versions of legislation that would require agencies to make their data more transparent are under consideration by Congress, but only one requires all agencies appoint chief data officers.
The Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary Government Data Act, originally sponsored in the House by Reps. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, and Derek Kilmer, D-Wash., and in the Senate by Sens. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, directs agencies to make their data available to the public in a machine-readable format. It also requires them to keep detailed inventories of the data they collect.
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