| Bill # |
Name (Sponsor) |
Summary |
Status |
S 803
 | E-Government Act of 2001 (Lieberman) | Federal government agencies would be required to: make information more accessible and useable; provide better privacy notice on the Web; and create "privacy impact assessments" for new information collections. A federal Chief Information Officer would be created within the Office of Management and Budget. An Interagency Information Technology Fund would be created and IT workforce issues would be given priority. |
5/1/01: Introduced and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
7/11/01: Committee hearing held.
3/21/02: Marked-up and ordered reported by the full Senate Government Affairs Committee.
6/27/02 Passed by Senate and sent to the House. Note: Major provisions of S. 803 were incorporated into H.R. 2458, which is the bill that ended up being passed by both Houses of Congress. |
HR 2458
| E-Government Act of 2001 (Turner, Jim) | To enhance the management and promotion of electronic Government services and processes by establishing a Federal Chief Information Officer within the Office of Management and Budget, and by establishing a broad framework of measures that require using Internet-based information technology to enhance citizen access to Government information and services. | 7/11/01: Introduced and referred to Government Reform Committee.
9/18/02: Subcommittee hearings held.
10/09/02: Full Committee consideration, mark up.
11/14/02: Reported.
11/15/02: Passed by the House, with an amendment.
11/15/02: Received in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
11/15/02: Cleared for White House. |
| HR 2148 | Office of Technology Assessment Reestablishment Act of 2001 (Holt) | Reestablishes the currently-defunct Office of Technology Assessment. | 6/13/01: Introduced and referred to Committee on Science.
6/20/01: Referred to Subcommittees on Energy, on the Environment, Technology and Standards, on Research, and on Space and Aeronautics. |
| HR 2136 | Confidential Information Protection Act (Sawyer) | Limits the use and disclosure of personally identifiable information by federal agencies, and exempts such information from requests made under the Freedom of Information Act. | 6/12/01: Introduced and referred to Committee on Government Reform.
7/9/01: Referred to Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial Management and Intergovernmental Relations. |
| S Res 21 | A Resolution "directing the Sergeant-at-Arms to provide Internet access to certain Congressional documents, including certain Congressional Research Service publications, Senate lobbying and gift report filings, and Senate and Joint Committee documents." (McCain/Leahy) | Declares that the reports of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) should be made publicly available via the Internet, and instructs the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Congress to make them so. Also publicizes lobbyist disclosure reports and gift disclosure reports filed in the Senate and calls for a GAO (Government Accounting Office) exploring the cost of making these web-accessible. | 2/14/01: Introduced and referred to Committee on Rules and Administration. |
