TH ST CONGRESS SESSION H. R. 614Sec. 307. Increase energy efficiency of Federal buildings. Sec. 308. Reduce redundant health payments for seniors. Sec. 309. Efficient Medicare billing

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114TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 614

To provide for savings, accountability, value, and efficiency, and for other

purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JANUARY 28, 2015

Mr. MURPHY of Florida (for himself, Mr. JOLLY, Mr. ASHFORD, Mr.

CURBELO of Florida, Ms. SINEMA, Mr. MULVANEY, Ms. KUSTER, Mr.

FITZPATRICK, Mr. SWALWELL of California, and Mr. BARR) introduced

the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and

Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans’ Af-

fairs, Appropriations, Agriculture, Energy and Commerce, Ways and

Means, Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, the Judiciary, Financial Serv-

ices, House Administration, and Rules, for a period to be subsequently

determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-

sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

A BILL To provide for savings, accountability, value, and efficiency,

and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1

tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 3

(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 4

‘‘Savings, Accountability, Value, and Efficiency Act of 5

2015’’ or the ‘‘SAVE Act’’. 6

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(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 1

this Act is as follows: 2

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

TITLE I—SAVE I

Sec. 100. Short title.

Subtitle A—Provisions Relating to Federal Property, Federal Contracts, and

Information Technology

Sec. 101. Management of Federal excess and underutilized real property.

Sec. 102. Promotion of competition in Federal contracting.

Sec. 103. Promotion of strategic sourcing in Federal contracting.

Sec. 104. Strengthening oversight of information technology operations.

Subtitle B—Other Matters

Sec. 111. Rescission of unobligated budget authority for Department of Energy

ATVM loan program.

Sec. 112. Report on implementation of certain Medicare and Medicaid fraud

detection and program integrity provisions.

Sec. 113. Study and report on the enhancement of agricultural quarantine and

inspection fees.

Sec. 114. Authorization of depleted uranium sales.

Sec. 115. Coordination of diesel emissions controls.

TITLE II—SAVE II


Sec. 202. Department of Defense unmanned aircraft systems.

Sec. 203. Finalizing Department of Defense inventory management guidance.

Sec. 204. Revocation or denial of passport and passport card in case of certain

unpaid taxes.

Sec. 205. Consideration of prospective antidumping and countervailing duty col-

lection system.

Sec. 206. Report on effectiveness of foreign assistance programs and projects.

Sec. 207. Conversion of prison X-ray systems.

Sec. 208. Prohibition on non-cost effective minting and printing of coins and

currency.

Sec. 209. Restrictions on printing and distribution of paper copies of Congres-

sional documents.

TITLE III—SAVE III


Sec. 302. Software license management.

Sec. 303. United States Postal Service fleet efficiency.

Sec. 304. Government Computer Energy Optimization.

Sec. 305. Removal of benefits for Federal employee convicted of certain of-

fenses.

Sec. 306. Codification of Office of Management and Budget criteria.

Sec. 307. Increase energy efficiency of Federal buildings.

Sec. 308. Reduce redundant health payments for seniors.

Sec. 309. Efficient Medicare billing.


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TITLE IV—SAVE IV


Sec. 402. Study on challenges identity theft poses for Internal Revenue Service.

Sec. 403. Study on cost-effective acquisition of medical equipment and supplies

under the Medicare program.

Sec. 404. Report on fragmentation of Department of Defense foreign language

support programs.

Sec. 405. Audit of Department of Defense by private entity.

Sec. 406. Preference for contracts with local and State governments for shared

performance of maintenance and administrative functions at

military installations.

TITLE I—SAVE I 1

SEC. 100. SHORT TITLE. 2

This title may be cited as the ‘‘Savings, Account-3

ability, Value, and Efficiency I Act’’ or the ‘‘SAVE I Act’’. 4

Subtitle A—Provisions Relating to 5

Federal Property, Federal Con-6

tracts, and Information Tech-7

nology 8

SEC. 101. MANAGEMENT OF FEDERAL EXCESS AND UNDER-9

UTILIZED REAL PROPERTY. 10

(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 5 of subtitle I of title 40, 11

United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 12

following new subchapter: 13

‘‘SUBCHAPTER VII—MANAGING FEDERAL 14

EXCESS AND UNDERUTILIZED REAL PROPERTY 15

‘‘§ 621. National strategy and plan to manage Federal 16

excess and underutilized real property 17

‘‘(a) NATIONAL STRATEGY.—Not less than 6 months 18

after the date of the enactment of this subchapter, and 19

every two years thereafter, the Director of the Office of 20


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Management and Budget, in consultation with the head 1

of each designated agency, shall develop and publish a na-2

tional strategy for managing excess property and under-3

utilized Federal real property. The national strategy shall 4

include the following: 5

‘‘(1) A statement of purpose, scope, and meth-6

odology. 7

‘‘(2) A definition of excess and underutilized 8

Federal real property, along with a list of risk fac-9

tors that lead to such property becoming excess or 10

underutilized. 11

‘‘(3) Goals, subordinate objectives, activities, 12

and performance measures, including the milestones 13

and timeframes for achieving objectives. 14

‘‘(4) Resources, investments, and risk manage-15

ment. 16

‘‘(5) Organizational roles, responsibilities, and 17

coordination. 18

‘‘(6) Integration and implementation plans. 19

‘‘(7) For each national strategy after the first, 20

a description of how the previous national strategy 21

has been implemented. 22

‘‘(b) DATA.—Not less than 6 months after the date 23

of the enactment of this subchapter, and every two years 24

thereafter, the Administrator of General Services, in con-25


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sultation with the head of each designated agency, shall 1

develop and implement a plan to improve the Federal Real 2

Property Profile established in accordance with Executive 3

Order 13327 (40 U.S.C. 121 note; relating to Federal real 4

property asset management), that ensures the data col-5

lected is complete, accurate, and consistent. The plan shall 6

include the following: 7

‘‘(1) Clearly defined data collection require-8

ments and consistent data reporting to the database 9

across Federal agencies. 10

‘‘(2) Designation of performance measures that 11

are linked to performance goals and that are con-12

sistent with the requirements in Executive Order 13

13327, or any amendment to or replacement of such 14

Executive order. 15

‘‘(3) Recommendations for how Federal agen-16

cies can collaborate effectively to provide data when 17

determining data collection requirements and lim-18

iting the number of measures collected to those de-19

termined to be essential, taking into account the cost 20

and effort involved in collecting the data when deter-21

mining data collection requirements. 22

‘‘(4) For each plan after the first, a description 23

of how the previous plan has been implemented. 24

‘‘(c) SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION.— 25


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‘‘(1) SUBMISSION.—The national strategy re-1

quired by subsection (a) and the plan required by 2

subsection (b) shall be submitted to each committee 3

of jurisdiction in the House of Representatives and 4

the Senate. 5

‘‘(2) OMB PUBLICATION.—The national strat-6

egy required by subsection (a) shall be published on 7

the Web site of the Office of Management and 8

Budget. 9

‘‘(3) GSA PUBLICATION.—The plan required by 10

subsection (b) shall be published on the Web site of 11

the General Services Administration. 12

‘‘(d) DESIGNATED AGENCY DEFINED.—In this sec-13

tion, the term ‘designated agency’ means each agency list-14

ed in section 901(b) of title 31.’’. 15

(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 16

at the beginning of chapter 5 of subtitle I of title 40, 17

United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 18

following: 19

‘‘SUBCHAPTER VII—MANAGING FEDERAL EXCESS AND UNDERUTILIZED REAL

PROPERTY

‘‘Sec.

‘‘621. National strategy and plan to manage Federal excess and underutilized

real property.’’.


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SEC. 102. PROMOTION OF COMPETITION IN FEDERAL CON-1

TRACTING. 2

(a) OFFICE OF FEDERAL PROCUREMENT POLICY.— 3

Not later than six months after the date of enactment of 4

this Act, the Administrator for Federal Procurement Pol-5

icy shall issue guidance to Federal agencies to reinvigorate 6

the role of the competition advocate, consistent with the 7

recommendations of the Government Accountability Office 8

in its report GAO–10–833 (July 26, 2010). 9

(b) ELEMENTS OF GUIDANCE.—The guidance issued 10

pursuant to subsection (a) shall include key factors agen-11

cies should consider in appointing and utilizing competi-12

tion advocates, such as placement within the organization, 13

skill set, and potential methods to effectively carry out 14

their duties, and shall direct agencies to require their com-15

petition advocates to actively involve program offices in 16

highlighting opportunities to increase competition. 17

SEC. 103. PROMOTION OF STRATEGIC SOURCING IN FED-18

ERAL CONTRACTING. 19

(a) SAVINGS GOALS.—Not later than six months 20

after the date of enactment of this Act, and for 4 years 21

annually thereafter, the Director of the Office of Manage-22

ment and Budget shall issue Government-wide savings 23

goals for the strategic sourcing of goods and services by 24

executive agencies required to designate or appoint a Chief 25

Financial Officer as set forth in section 901 of title 31. 26


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The Director may issue goals required by this section that 1

are customized to individual agencies or sourcing efforts. 2

(b) MATTERS COVERED.—In complying with sub-3

section (a), the Director shall provide at a minimum— 4

(1) guidance to executive agencies on calcu-5

lating savings generated from strategic sourcing ef-6

forts; and 7

(2) standards to measure progress towards 8

meeting savings goals established by subsection (a). 9

(c) REPORT.—Not later than 5 years after the date 10

of enactment of this Act, the Director shall submit to Con-11

gress a report on the extent of savings realized through 12

the strategic sourcing of goods and services by executive 13

agencies during the period Government-wide savings goals 14

are required to be issued pursuant to subsection (a). 15

SEC. 104. STRENGTHENING OVERSIGHT OF INFORMATION 16

TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS. 17

Section 11303(b) of title 40, United States Code, is 18

amended— 19

(1) by redesignating paragraph (5) as para-20

graph (6); and 21

(2) by inserting after paragraph (4) the fol-22

lowing new paragraph (5): 23

‘‘(5) ANALYSES OF INVESTMENTS IN OPER-24

ATIONS AND MAINTENANCE.—The Director shall re-25


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quire each executive agency to develop a policy con-1

sistent with OMB guidance for performing analysis 2

on each operational/steady state information tech-3

nology investment to measure how well the invest-4

ment is achieving expected cost, schedule, perform-5

ance, and other goals, and to determine whether the 6

investment provides the most cost effective way of 7

delivering business value. The agencies shall conduct 8

these operational analyses on a yearly basis and 9

shall report the results to the Director and through 10

existing or newly developed transparency mecha-11

nisms.’’. 12

Subtitle B—Other Matters 13

SEC. 111. RESCISSION OF UNOBLIGATED BUDGET AUTHOR-14

ITY FOR DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ATVM 15

LOAN PROGRAM. 16

Of the funds made available by section 129 of the 17

Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Con-18

tinuing Appropriations Act, 2009, Public Law 110–329, 19

the unobligated balance is hereby rescinded. 20


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SEC. 112. REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF CERTAIN 1

MEDICARE AND MEDICAID FRAUD DETEC-2

TION AND PROGRAM INTEGRITY PROVISIONS. 3

Section 1128J(a)(1)(A) of the Social Security Act 4

(42 U.S.C. 1320a–7k(a)(1)(A)) is amended by adding at 5

the end the following new clause: 6

‘‘(iii) REPORT ON INTEGRATED DATA 7

REPOSITORY AND ONE PROGRAM INTEG-8

RITY SYSTEM.—Not later than six months 9

after the date of enactment of this clause, 10

the Secretary shall submit to the appro-11

priate congressional committees a report 12

on the following: 13

‘‘(I) INTEGRATED DATA REPOSI-14

TORY.—Efforts to finalize plans and 15

schedules for fully implementing and 16

expanding the use of the Integrated 17

Data Repository, including actions 18

taken to finalize, implement, and 19

manage plans for incorporating data 20

into the Integrated Data Repository 21

and actions taken to define measur-22

able financial benefits expected from 23

the implementation of the Integrated 24

Data Repository. 25


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‘‘(II) ONE PROGRAM INTEGRITY 1

SYSTEM.—Actions taken to plan, 2

schedule, and conduct training on the 3

One Program Integrity System, a 4

Web-based portal and suite of soft-5

ware tools used to analyze and extract 6

data from the Integrated Data Repos-7

itory, and actions taken to define 8

measurable financial benefits expected 9

from the use of the One Program In-10

tegrity System.’’. 11

SEC. 113. STUDY AND REPORT ON THE ENHANCEMENT OF 12

AGRICULTURAL QUARANTINE AND INSPEC-13

TION FEES. 14

(a) STUDY.—The Secretary of Agriculture shall con-15

duct a study to ensure that the amount of the fees col-16

lected under section 2509(a) of the Food, Agriculture, 17

Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (21 U.S.C. 136a(a)) 18

is commensurate with the aggregate costs of agricultural 19

quarantine and inspections services provided with respect 20

to the entry into the United States of commercial aircraft 21

or other vehicles. 22

(b) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 23

of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture 24

shall submit to Congress a report that contains— 25


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(1) the results of the study conducted under 1

subsection (a); and 2

(2) the Secretary’s recommendations for ensur-3

ing that fees collected under section 2509(a) of the 4

Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 5

1990 (21 U.S.C. 136a(a)) are commensurate with 6

the aggregate costs of agricultural quarantine and 7

inspection services provided with respect to the entry 8

into the United States of commercial aircraft or 9

other vehicles, including the costs of any related in-10

spections of passengers arriving on commercial air-11

craft or other vehicles. 12

SEC. 114. AUTHORIZATION OF DEPLETED URANIUM SALES. 13

(a) Section 3112(a) of the USEC Privatization Act, 14

Public Law 104–134 (42 U.S.C. 2297h–10), is amended 15

to read as follows: 16

‘‘(a) TRANSFERS AND SALES BY THE SECRETARY.— 17

The Secretary shall not provide enrichment services or 18

transfer or sell any uranium to any person except as con-19

sistent with this section. For purposes of this section, with 20

the exception of subsection (b), ‘uranium’ shall include but 21

not be limited to natural uranium concentrates, natural 22

uranium hexafluoride, high enriched uranium, low en-23

riched uranium, depleted uranium, and any byproduct of 24

uranium processing.’’. 25


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(b) Section 3112(d) is amended— 1

(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘sell natural 2

and low-enriched uranium (including low-enriched 3

uranium derived from highly enriched uranium)’’ 4

and inserting ‘‘transfer or sell any uranium’’; and 5

(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘natural or 6

low-enriched uranium’’ and inserting ‘‘any ura-7

nium’’. 8

(c) Section 3112(f) is renumbered as 3112(h). 9

(d) After section 3112(e), insert new subsections (f) 10

and (g) as follows: 11

‘‘(f) REPORTING.—Not less than 30 days nor more 12

than two years prior to the transfer or sale of any uranium 13

for any purpose, the Secretary shall notify the House and 14

Senate Committees on Appropriations, the House Com-15

mittee on Energy and Commerce, and the Senate Com-16

mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the following: 17

‘‘(1) The amount of uranium to be transferred 18

or sold. 19

‘‘(2) An estimate by the Secretary of the gross 20

market value of the uranium on the expected date 21

of the transfer or sale of the uranium. 22

‘‘(3) The expected date of transfer or sale of 23

the uranium. 24

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‘‘(5) The funds, if any, the Secretary expects to 1

receive in exchange for the uranium, and the Sec-2

retary’s plans for the funds, and, if the Secretary 3

plans to retain the funds, a citation of the legal au-4

thority for doing so. 5

‘‘(6) The value of the services and materials the 6

Secretary expects to receive in exchange for the ura-7

nium, including any changes to the gross value of 8

the uranium by the recipient for uranium to be pro-9

vided to the Department of Energy. 10

‘‘(7) The purpose of the transfer or sale. 11

‘‘(g) LIST OF TRANSFERS AND SALES.—The Sec-12

retary shall maintain a list identifying all notifications re-13

quired by subsection (f) of this section and for each notifi-14

cation identifying the expected date of the notification, the 15

actual date of the transaction and any information per-16

taining to the actual transaction that differs from the in-17

formation provided in the notification. For each notifica-18

tion, the list shall identify the date of the relevant Secre-19

tarial determination, if any, pursuant to subsection 20

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SEC. 115. COORDINATION OF DIESEL EMISSIONS CON-1

TROLS. 2

The Director of the Office of Management and Budg-3

et shall, not later than six months after the date of enact-4

ment of this Act, develop a strategy— 5

(1) to assess the collective results of Federal 6

funding of activities that have the effect of reducing 7

mobile source diesel emissions; and 8

(2) to identify and eliminate any unnecessary 9

duplication, overlap, and fragmentation of such ac-10

tivities. 11

TITLE II—SAVE II 12



ability, Value, and Efficiency II Act’’ or ‘‘SAVE II Act’’. 15

SEC. 202. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE UNMANNED AIR-16

CRAFT SYSTEMS. 17

(a) EXAMINATION TO IMPROVE INTEROPER-18

ABILITY.—The UAS Task Force established by the Under 19

Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Lo-20

gistics shall conduct an examination of the entire un-21

manned aircraft systems (UAS) portfolio of the Depart-22

ment of Defense, including UAS requirements, platforms, 23

payloads, and ground control stations, for the purpose of 24

developing strategies for improved interoperability of ex-25

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(b) INCORPORATION IN ACQUISITION STRATEGIES.— 1

In the acquisition strategies for each unmanned aircraft 2

program commenced after the date of the enactment of 3

this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall identify, prior to 4

milestone B, areas in which commonality with other un-5

manned aircraft systems across the UAS portfolio will be 6

achieved. 7

(c) INDEPENDENT STUDY.—The Secretary of De-8

fense shall request a federally funded research and devel-9

opment center to conduct an independent study— 10

(1) to analyze the effectiveness of the UAS 11

Task Force in addressing UAS interoperability and 12

overlap issues; 13

(2) to provide solutions, if needed, to existing 14

interoperability and overlap issues; and 15

(3) to determine whether a single entity would 16

be better positioned than the UAS Task Force to in-17

tegrate all crosscutting efforts to improve the man-18

agement and operation of the UAS portfolio. 19

(d) REPORT.—Not later than March 3, 2017, the 20

Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report 21

containing the— 22

(1) the results of the examination required by 23

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(2) the results of the independent study re-1

quired by subsection (c). 2

SEC. 203. FINALIZING DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INVEN-3

TORY MANAGEMENT GUIDANCE. 4

(a) DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INVENTORY MAN-5

AGEMENT GUIDANCE.—As part of the implementation of 6

the Department of Defense Comprehensive Inventory 7

Management Improvement Plan, the Secretary of Defense 8

shall issue revised inventory management guidance that— 9

(1) strengthens demand forecasting, visibility of 10

on-hand inventory, reviews of on-order excess inven-11

tory, and management of inventory held for eco-12

nomic and contingency reasons in order to prevent 13

on-order and on-hand excess inventory; 14

(2) establishes a comprehensive, standardized 15

set of department-wide supply chain and inventory 16

management metrics, including standardized defini-17

tions, to measure five key attributes (materiel readi-18

ness, responsiveness, reliability, cost, and planning 19

and precision) of supply chain management oper-20

ations; and 21

(3) establishes procedures for measuring and 22

reporting these metrics on a regular basis to ensure 23

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(b) COMPLETION AND SUBMISSION.—Not later than 1

270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 2

Secretary of Defense shall complete the revision of inven-3

tory management guidance required by subsection (a) and 4

submit the revised guidance to Congress. 5

SEC. 204. REVOCATION OR DENIAL OF PASSPORT AND 6

PASSPORT CARD IN CASE OF CERTAIN UN-7

PAID TAXES. 8

(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter D of chapter 75 of the 9

Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at 10

the end the following new section: 11

‘‘SEC. 7345. REVOCATION OR DENIAL OF PASSPORT AND 12

PASSPORT CARD IN CASE OF CERTAIN TAX 13

DELINQUENCIES. 14

‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—If the Secretary receives certifi-15

cation by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue that any 16

individual has a seriously delinquent tax debt in an 17

amount in excess of $50,000, the Secretary shall transmit 18

such certification to the Secretary of State for action with 19

respect to denial, revocation, or limitation of a passport 20

or passport card pursuant to section 4 of the Act entitled 21

‘An Act to regulate the issue and validity of passports, 22

and for other purposes’, approved July 3, 1926 (22 U.S.C. 23

211a et seq.), commonly known as the ‘Passport Act of 24

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‘‘(b) SERIOUSLY DELINQUENT TAX DEBT.—For pur-1

poses of this section, the term ‘seriously delinquent tax 2

debt’ means an outstanding debt under this title for which 3

a notice of lien has been filed in public records pursuant 4

to section 6323 or a notice of levy has been filed pursuant 5

to section 6331, except that such term does not include— 6

‘‘(1) a debt that is being paid in a timely man-7

ner pursuant to an agreement under section 6159 or 8

7122, and 9

‘‘(2) a debt with respect to which collection is 10

suspended because a collection due process hearing 11

under section 6330, or relief under subsection (b), 12

(c), or (f) of section 6015, is requested or pending. 13

‘‘(c) ADJUSTMENT FOR INFLATION.—In the case of 14

a calendar year beginning after 2013, the dollar amount 15

in subsection (a) shall be increased by an amount equal 16

to— 17

‘‘(1) such dollar amount, multiplied by 18

‘‘(2) the cost-of-living adjustment determined 19

under section 1(f)(3) for the calendar year, deter-20

mined by substituting ‘calendar year 2012’ for ‘cal-21

endar year 1992’ in subparagraph (B) thereof. 22

If any amount as adjusted under the preceding sentence 23

is not a multiple of $1,000, such amount shall be rounded 24

to the next highest multiple of $1,000.’’. 25


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(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 1

for subchapter D of chapter 75 of the Internal Revenue 2

Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the fol-3

lowing new item: 4

‘‘Sec. 7345. Revocation or denial of passport and passport card in case of cer-

tain tax delinquencies.’’.

(c) AUTHORITY FOR INFORMATION SHARING.— 5

(1) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (l) of section 6

6103 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is 7

amended by adding at the end the following new 8

paragraph: 9

‘‘(23) DISCLOSURE OF RETURN INFORMATION 10

TO DEPARTMENT OF STATE FOR PURPOSES OF PASS-11

PORT AND PASSPORT CARD REVOCATION UNDER 12

SECTION 7345.— 13

‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, 14

upon receiving a certification described in sec-15

tion 7345, disclose to the Secretary of State re-16

turn information with respect to a taxpayer who 17

has a seriously delinquent tax debt described in 18

such section. Such return information shall be 19

limited to— 20

‘‘(i) the taxpayer identity information 21

with respect to such taxpayer, and 22

‘‘(ii) the amount of such seriously de-23

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‘‘(B) RESTRICTION ON DISCLOSURE.—Re-1

turn information disclosed under subparagraph 2

(A) may be used by officers and employees of 3

the Department of State for the purposes of, 4

and to the extent necessary in, carrying out the 5

requirements of section 4 of the Act entitled 6

‘An Act to regulate the issue and validity of 7

passports, and for other purposes’, approved 8

July 3, 1926 (22 U.S.C. 211a et seq.), com-9

monly known as the ‘Passport Act of 1926’.’’. 10

(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Paragraph (4) 11

of section 6103(p) of such Code is amended by strik-12

ing ‘‘or (22)’’ each place it appears in subparagraph 13

(F)(ii) and in the matter preceding subparagraph 14

(A) and inserting ‘‘(22), or (23)’’. 15

(d) REVOCATION AUTHORIZATION.—The Act entitled 16

‘‘An Act to regulate the issue and validity of passports, 17

and for other purposes’’, approved July 3, 1926 (22 18

U.S.C. 211a et seq.), commonly known as the ‘‘Passport 19

Act of 1926’’, is amended by adding at the end the fol-20

lowing: 21

‘‘SEC. 4. AUTHORITY TO DENY OR REVOKE PASSPORT AND 22

PASSPORT CARD. 23

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‘‘(1) ISSUANCE.—Except as provided under 1

subsection (b), upon receiving a certification de-2

scribed in section 7345 of the Internal Revenue 3

Code of 1986 from the Secretary of the Treasury, 4

the Secretary of State may not issue a passport or 5

passport card to any individual who has a seriously 6

delinquent tax debt described in such section. 7

‘‘(2) REVOCATION.—The Secretary of State 8

shall revoke a passport or passport card previously 9

issued to any individual described in paragraph (1). 10

‘‘(b) EXCEPTIONS.— 11

‘‘(1) EMERGENCY AND HUMANITARIAN SITUA-12

TIONS.—Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Sec-13

retary of State may issue a passport or passport 14

card, in emergency circumstances or for humani-15

tarian reasons, to an individual described in para-16

graph (1) of such subsection. 17

‘‘(2) LIMITATION FOR RETURN TO UNITED 18

STATES.—Notwithstanding subsection (a)(2), the 19

Secretary of State, before revocation, may— 20

‘‘(A) limit a previously issued passport or 21

passport card only for return travel to the 22

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‘‘(B) issue a limited passport or passport 1

card that only permits return travel to the 2

United States.’’. 3

(e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 4

this section shall take effect on January 1, 2014. 5

SEC. 205. CONSIDERATION OF PROSPECTIVE ANTIDUMPING 6

AND COUNTERVAILING DUTY COLLECTION 7

SYSTEM. 8

(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 180 days 9

after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 10

of Commerce shall submit to Congress a report containing 11

an evaluation of the merits and feasibility of converting 12

from a retrospective antidumping and countervailing duty 13

collection system to a prospective antidumping and coun-14

tervailing duty collection system. If the Secretary rec-15

ommends conversion to a particular prospective system, 16

the Secretary shall include in the report an estimate of 17

the costs to be incurred and cost savings to be achieved 18

as a result of converting to such prospective system. 19

(b) CONSULTATION.—The Secretary of Commerce 20

shall prepare the report under subsection (a) in consulta-21

tion with the Secretary of Homeland Security and Sec-22

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SEC. 206. REPORT ON EFFECTIVENESS OF FOREIGN ASSIST-1

ANCE PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS. 2

(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than one year 3

after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Inspector 4

General of the United States Agency for International De-5

velopment shall submit to Congress a report on the effec-6

tiveness of each foreign assistance program and project 7

of the United States Agency for International Develop-8

ment. 9

(b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—The report re-10

quired by subsection (a) shall, with respect to each such 11

program and project, include a description of the fol-12

lowing: 13

(1) How funds and other resources provided to 14

a foreign entity under the program or project are 15

spent or used. 16

(2) The extent to which such funds and other 17

resources are spent or used in accordance with the 18

purposes of the program or project. 19

(3) The extent to which such funds and other 20

resources assist in achieving the results intended for 21

the program or project. 22

(4) The extent to which there is a correlation 23

between the program or project and a change in the 24

policies or popular attitudes towards the United 25


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States in the foreign country in which the program 1

or project is carried out. 2

SEC. 207. CONVERSION OF PRISON X-RAY SYSTEMS. 3

The Attorney General, in order to reduce the cost and 4

improve the efficacy of Federal prison health care, shall, 5

to the extent practicable and cost effective, convert by 6

2015 all X-ray systems in Federal prisons from analog, 7

film-based systems to digital, filmless systems. 8

SEC. 208. PROHIBITION ON NON-COST EFFECTIVE MINTING 9

AND PRINTING OF COINS AND CURRENCY. 10

(a) PROHIBITION WITH RESPECT TO COINS.—Sec-11

tion 5111 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by 12

adding at the end the following: 13

‘‘(e) PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN MINTING.—Notwith-14

standing any other provision of this subchapter, the Sec-15

retary may not mint or issue any coin that costs more 16

to produce than the denomination of the coin (including 17

labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, overhead ex-18

penses, marketing, and shipping).’’. 19

(b) PROHIBITION WITH RESPECT TO CURRENCY.— 20

Section 5114(a) of title 31, United States Code, is amend-21

ed by adding at the end the following: 22

‘‘(4) PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN PRINTING.— 23

Notwithstanding any other provision of this sub-24

chapter, the Secretary may not engrave or print any 25


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United States currency that costs more to produce 1

than the denomination of the currency (including 2

labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, overhead ex-3

penses, marketing, and shipping).’’. 4

SEC. 209. RESTRICTIONS ON PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION 5

OF PAPER COPIES OF CONGRESSIONAL DOC-6

UMENTS. 7

(a) PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION OF DOCUMENTS 8

BY PUBLIC PRINTER.— 9

(1) RESTRICTIONS.—Chapter 7 of title 44, 10

United States Code, is amended by adding at the 11

end the following new section: 12

‘‘§ 742. Restrictions on printing and distribution of 13

paper copies 14

‘‘(a) MANDATORY USE OF ELECTRONIC FORMAT FOR 15

DISTRIBUTION OF CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS.—Not-16

withstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Pub-17

lic Printer shall make any document of the House of Rep-18

resentatives or Senate which is subject to any of the provi-19

sions of this chapter available only in an electronic format 20

which is accessible through the Internet, and may not 21

print or distribute a printed copy of the document except 22

as provided in subsection (b). 23

‘‘(b) PERMITTING PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION OF 24

PRINTED COPIES UPON REQUEST.—Notwithstanding 25


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subsection (a), at the request of any person to whom the 1

Public Printer would have been required to provide a 2

printed copy of a document under this chapter had sub-3

section (a) not been in effect, the Public Printer may print 4

and distribute a copy of a document or report for the use 5

of that person, except that— 6

‘‘(1) the number of printed copies the Public 7

Printer may provide to the person may not exceed 8

the number of printed copies the Public Printer 9

would have provided to the person had subsection 10

(a) not been in effect; and 11

‘‘(2) the Public Printer may print and dis-12

tribute copies to the person only upon payment by 13

the person of the costs of printing and distributing 14

the copies, except that this paragraph shall not 15

apply to an office of the House of Representatives 16

or Senate (including the office of a Member of Con-17

gress).’’. 18

(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-19

tions of chapter 7 of such title is amended by adding 20

at the end following new item: 21

‘‘742. Restrictions on printing and distribution of paper copies.’’.

(b) PROVISION OF DOCUMENTS IN ELECTRONIC 22

FORMAT DEEMED TO MEET REQUIREMENTS OF HOUSE 23

AND SENATE RULES REGARDING DISTRIBUTION OF 24

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(1) IN GENERAL.—If any rule or regulation of 1

the House of Representatives or Senate requires a 2

Member or committee to provide printed copies of 3

any document (including any bill or resolution) for 4

the use of the House or Senate or for the use of any 5

office of the House or Senate, the Member or com-6

mittee shall be considered to have met the require-7

ment of the rule or regulation if the Member or com-8

mittee makes the document available to the recipient 9

in an electronic format. 10

(2) EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING AUTHORITY OF 11

SENATE AND HOUSE.—This subsection is enacted by 12

Congress— 13

(A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power 14

of the Senate and House of Representatives, re-15

spectively, and as such it is deemed a part of 16

the rules of each House, respectively, and it su-17

persedes other rules only to the extent that it 18

is inconsistent with such rules; and 19

(B) with full recognition of the constitu-20

tional right of either House to change the rules 21

(so far as relating to the procedure of that 22

House) at any time, in the same manner, and 23

to the same extent as in the case of any other 24

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(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section and the amend-1

ments made by this section shall apply with respect to doc-2

uments produced on or after January 1, 2015. 3

TITLE III—SAVE III 4



ability, Value, and Efficiency III Act’’. 7

SEC. 302. SOFTWARE LICENSE MANAGEMENT. 8

(a) SOFTWARE LICENSE POLICIES REQUIRED.—Not 9

later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of 10

this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and 11

Budget shall issue software licensing policies for agencies 12

to follow that include the following: 13

(1) An identification of clear roles, responsibil-14

ities, and central oversight authority within each 15

agency for managing enterprise software license 16

agreements. 17

(2) A requirement that each agency establish 18

an accurate inventory of enterprise software license 19

agreements by identifying and collecting information 20

about software license agreements using automated 21

discovery and inventory tools. 22

(3) A requirement that each agency regularly 23

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agency in implementing decisions throughout the 1

software license management life cycle. 2

(4) A requirement that each agency analyze 3

software usage and other data to make cost-effective 4

decisions. 5

(5) A requirement that each agency provide 6

training relevant to software license management. 7

(6) A requirement that each agency establish 8

goals and objectives to better manage enterprise 9

software license agreements. 10

(7) A requirement that each agency consider 11

the software license management life-cycle phases 12

(including requisition, reception, deployment and 13

maintenance, retirement, and disposal phases) to im-14

plement effective decisionmaking and incorporate ex-15

isting standards, processes, and metrics. 16

(b) AGENCY DEFINED.—In this section, the term 17

‘‘agency’’ has the meaning given that term in section 551 18

of title 5, United States Code. 19

SEC. 303. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE FLEET EFFI-20

CIENCY. 21

(a) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this section are to 22

provide for the upgrade of the vehicle fleet of the United 23

States Postal Service, to improve mail delivery services to 24

benefit customers and the environment, to increase sav-25


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ings by reducing maintenance or other costs, and to set 1

benchmarks to maximize fuel economy and reduce emis-2

sions for the Postal fleet with the goal of making the Post-3

al Service a national leader in efficiency and technology 4

innovation. 5

(b) AUTHORITY TO ENTER INTO ENERGY SAVINGS 6

PERFORMANCE CONTRACTS.—Section 804(4) of the Na-7

tional Energy Conservation Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 8

8287c(4)) is amended— 9

(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘or’’ after 10

the semicolon; 11

(2) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period 12

at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 13

(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-14

paragraph: 15

‘‘(C) in the case of a contract in which the 16

United States Postal Service is a party— 17

‘‘(i) the purchase or lease of low emis-18

sion and fuel efficient vehicles; 19

‘‘(ii) a measure to upgrade a vehicle 20

owned, operated, leased, or otherwise con-21

trolled by or assigned to the United States 22

Postal Service to increase average fuel 23

economy and reduce the emissions of car-24

bon dioxide of such vehicle; or 25


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‘‘(iii) the construction of infrastruc-1

ture, including electric vehicle charging 2

stations, to support vehicles described in 3

clauses (i) and (ii).’’. 4

(c) UPGRADE OF POSTAL FLEET.— 5

(1) POSTAL FLEET REQUIREMENTS.— 6

(A) MOTOR VEHICLE STANDARDS.—The 7

Postmaster General shall develop guidelines for 8

contracted vehicles and vehicles purchased or 9

leased for use by the Postal Service, that, at a 10

minimum, provide— 11

(i) for light-duty vehicles— 12

(I) that emissions of carbon diox-13

ide comply with applicable standards 14

developed by the Environmental Pro-15

tection Agency under title II of the 16

Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7521 et 17

seq.) and may not exceed, on average, 18

250 grams per mile; and 19

(II) to meet applicable average 20

fuel economy standards developed by 21

the National Highway Traffic Safety 22

Administration under chapter 329 of 23

title 49, United States Code, of 34.1 24

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(ii) for medium-duty and heavy-duty 1

vehicles, that comply with applicable stand-2

ards— 3

(I) for emissions of carbon diox-4

ide developed by the Environmental 5

Protection Agency under title II of 6

the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7521 et 7

seq.); and 8

(II) for average fuel economy de-9

veloped by the National Highway 10

Traffic Safety Administration under 11

chapter 329 of title 49, United States 12

Code. 13

(B) APPLICABILITY.—The standards de-14

scribed in subparagraph (A) shall apply to con-15

tracted vehicles and vehicles purchased or 16

leased for use by the Postal Service after the 17

date that is 1 year after the date of the enact-18

ment of this Act. 19

(C) REDUCTION IN CONSUMPTION OF PE-20

TROLEUM PRODUCTS.—The Postmaster General 21

shall reduce the total consumption of petroleum 22

products by vehicles in the Postal fleet by a 23

minimum of 2 percent annually through the end 24


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of fiscal year 2025, relative to the baseline es-1

tablished for fiscal year 2005. 2

(2) REPLACING VEHICLES WITHIN THE POSTAL 3

FLEET.—The Postmaster General shall conduct a 4

cost-benefit analysis of vehicles in the Postal fleet to 5

determine if the cost to maintain any such vehicle 6

outweighs the benefit or savings of replacing the ve-7

hicle. 8

(3) ROUTE REQUIREMENTS.—To inform and 9

prioritize purchases, the Postmaster General shall 10

review and identify Postal delivery routes to deter-11

mine if motor vehicles used on such routes can be 12

replaced with technologies that increase average fuel 13

economy or reduce emissions of carbon dioxide. 14

(4) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.—The Post-15

master General shall submit a report to Congress— 16

(A) not later than 1 year after the date of 17

the enactment of this Act, that contains a plan 18

to achieve the requirements of paragraph (1) 19

and recommendations for vehicle body design 20

specifications for vehicles purchased for the 21

Postal fleet that would increase average fuel 22

economy and reduce emissions of carbon dioxide 23

of any such vehicle; and 24

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(i) the progress in meeting the annual 1

target described in paragraph (1)(C); and 2

(ii) any changes to Postal delivery 3

routes or vehicle purchase strategies made 4

pursuant to paragraph (3). 5

(5) RESTRICTIONS.—To meet the requirements 6

of this section, the Postmaster General may not— 7

(A) reduce the frequency of delivery of 8

mail to fewer than 6 days each week; 9

(B) close post offices or postal distribution 10

facilities; 11

(C) take any action that would restrict or 12

diminish a collective bargaining agreement or 13

eliminate or reduce any employee benefits; or 14

(D) enter into a contract with a private 15

company to perform duties that, as of the date 16

of the enactment of this Act, are performed by 17

bargaining unit employees. 18

(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 19

(1) CONTRACTED VEHICLE.—The term ‘‘con-20

tracted vehicle’’— 21

(A) means any motor vehicle used in car-22

rying out a contract for surface mail delivery 23

pursuant to section 5005(a)(3) of title 39, 24

United States Code; and 25


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(B) does not include any motor vehicle 1

used in carrying out a contract for surface mail 2

delivery pursuant to sections 406 and 407 of 3

such title. 4

(2) MOTOR VEHICLE.—The term ‘‘motor vehi-5

cle’’ means any self-propelled vehicle designed for 6

transporting persons or property on a street or high-7

way. 8

(3) POSTAL DELIVERY ROUTE.—The term 9

‘‘Postal delivery route’’ means the transportation 10

route for surface mail delivery. 11

(4) POSTAL FLEET.—The term ‘‘Postal fleet’’ 12

means any vehicle that is owned, operated, leased, or 13

otherwise controlled by or assigned to the Postal 14

Service. 15

(5) POSTAL SERVICE.—The term ‘‘Postal Serv-16

ice’’ means the United States Postal Service. 17

SEC. 304. GOVERNMENT COMPUTER ENERGY OPTIMIZA-18

TION. 19

(a) AGENCY REQUIREMENT TO SHUT DOWN COM-20

PUTERS.—Except as provided in subsection (b), not later 21

than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, 22

the head of each agency shall make all reasonable efforts 23

to ensure that desktop computers are shut down for at 24

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(b) EXCEPTION.—The requirement in subsection (a) 1

shall not apply to— 2

(1) desktop computers that are used by a per-3

son for 16 or more hours per day; and 4

(2) computers that perform automated func-5

tions essential to the agency for 16 or more hours 6

per day. 7

(c) AGENCY DEFINED.—In this section, the term 8

‘‘agency’’ has the meaning given that term in section 551 9

of title 5, United States Code. 10

SEC. 305. REMOVAL OF BENEFITS FOR FEDERAL EM-11

PLOYEE CONVICTED OF CERTAIN OFFENSES. 12

(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-13

sion of law, an individual may not be paid an annuity 14

under chapter 83 or 84 (as the case may be) of title 5, 15

United States Code, if the individual is convicted of an 16

offense described under section 8332(o)(2)(B) of such 17

title, committed after the date of enactment of this Act, 18

for which every act or omission of the individual that is 19

needed to satisfy the elements of the offense directly re-20

lates to the performance of the individual’s official duties. 21

(b) CREDIT OF SERVICE.—Any such individual shall 22

be entitled to be paid any amounts contributed by the indi-23

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covered by subsection (a), pursuant to, or in a similar 1

manner as, the terms of section 8316 of such title. 2

(c) THRIFT SAVINGS PLAN.— 3

(1) EMPLOYING AGENCY CONTRIBUTIONS.—Any 4

contributions made under section 8432 of such title 5

by an employing agency for the benefit of an indi-6

vidual convicted of an offense described in sub-7

section (a) shall be forfeited. Such contributions 8

shall be returned to the general fund of the Treas-9

ury. 10

(2) EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS.—Any con-11

tributions made by the individual pursuant to sec-12

tion 8432 of such title shall be payable to the indi-13

vidual, upon application of such individual. 14

(3) COMPUTATION.—The computation of 15

amounts required by paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be 16

made on the date of the conviction of the individual 17

and shall consist of the value of the contributions, 18

including interest accrued, on such date. 19

(d) REGULATIONS.—The Director of the Office of 20

Personnel Management shall prescribe any regulations 21

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SEC. 306. CODIFICATION OF OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND 1

BUDGET CRITERIA. 2

The Secretary of Defense shall implement the fol-3

lowing criteria in requests for overseas contingency oper-4

ations: 5

(1) For theater of operations for non-classified 6

war overseas contingency operations funding, the ge-7

ographic areas in which combat or direct combat 8

support operations occur are: Iraq, Afghanistan, 9

Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, the 10

Horn of Africa, Persian Gulf and Gulf nations, the 11

Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Philippines, and 12

other countries on a case-by-case basis. 13

(2) Permitted Inclusions in the Overseas Con-14

tingency Operation Budget: 15

(A) Major Equipment: 16

(i) Replacement of losses that have 17

occurred but only for items not already 18

programmed for replacement in the Future 19

Years Defense Plan (FYDP), but not in-20

cluding accelerations, which must be made 21

in the base budget. 22

(ii) Replacement or repair to original 23

capability (to upgraded capability if that is 24

currently available) of equipment returning 25

from theater. The replacement may be a 26


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similar end item if the original item is no 1

longer in production. Incremental cost of 2

non-war related upgrades, if made, should 3

be included in the base. 4

(iii) Purchase of specialized, theater- 5

specific equipment. 6

(iv) Funding for major equipment 7

must be obligated within 12 months. 8

(B) Ground Equipment Replacement: 9

(i) For combat losses and returning 10

equipment that is not economical to repair, 11

the replacement of equipment may be given 12

to coalition partners, if consistent with ap-13

proved policy. 14

(ii) In-theater stocks above customary 15

equipping levels on a case-by-case basis. 16

(C) Equipment Modifications: 17

(i) Operationally required modifica-18

tions to equipment used in theater or in di-19

rect support of combat operations and that 20

is not already programmed in FYDP. 21

(ii) Funding for equipment modifica-22

tions must be able to be obligated in 12 23

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(i) Replenishment of munitions ex-1

pended in combat operations in theater. 2

(ii) Training ammunition for theater- 3

unique training events. 4

(iii) While forecasted expenditures are 5

not permitted, a case-by-case assessment 6

for munitions where existing stocks are in-7

sufficient to sustain theater combat oper-8

ations. 9

(E) Aircraft Replacement: 10

(i) Combat losses by accident that 11

occur in the theater of operations. 12

(ii) Combat losses by enemy action 13

that occur in the theater of operations. 14

(F) Military Construction: 15

(i) Facilities and infrastructure in the 16

theater of operations in direct support of 17

combat operations. The level of construc-18

tion should be the minimum to meet oper-19

ational requirements. 20

(ii) At non-enduring locations, facili-21

ties and infrastructure for temporary use. 22

(iii) At enduring locations, facilities 23

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(iv) At enduring locations, construc-1

tion requirements must be tied to surge 2

operations or major changes in operational 3

requirements and will be considered on a 4

case-by-case basis. 5

(G) Research and development projects for 6

combat operations in these specific theaters 7

that can be delivered in 12 months. 8

(H) Operations: 9

(i) Direct war costs: 10

(I) Transport of personnel, 11

equipment, and supplies to, from and 12

within the theater of operations. 13

(II) Deployment-specific training 14

and preparation for units and per-15

sonnel (military and civilian) to as-16

sume their directed missions as de-17

fined in the orders for deployment 18

into the theater of operations. 19

(ii) Within the theater, the incre-20

mental costs above the funding pro-21

grammed in the base budget to: 22

(I) Support commanders in the 23

conduct of their directed missions (to 24


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include Emergency Response Pro-1

grams). 2

(II) Build and maintain tem-3

porary facilities. 4

(III) Provide food, fuel, supplies, 5

contracted services and other support. 6

(IV) Cover the operational costs 7

of coalition partners supporting U.S. 8

military missions, as mutually agreed. 9

(iii) Indirect war costs incurred out-10

side the theater of operations will be evalu-11

ated on a case-by-case basis. 12

(I) Health: 13

(i) Short-term care directly related to 14

combat. 15

(ii) Infrastructure that is only to be 16

used during the current conflict. 17

(J) Personnel: 18

(i) Incremental special pays and al-19

lowances for servicemembers and civilians 20

deployed to a combat zone. 21

(ii) Incremental pay, special pays and 22

allowances for Reserve Component per-23

sonnel mobilized to support war missions. 24

(K) Special Operations Command: 25


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(i) Operations that meet the criteria 1

in this guidance. 2

(ii) Equipment that meets the criteria 3

in this guidance. 4

(L) Prepositioned supplies and equipment 5

for resetting in-theater stocks of supplies and 6

equipment to pre-war levels. 7

(M) Security force funding to train, equip, 8

and sustain Iraqi and Afghan military and po-9

lice forces. 10

(N) Fuel: 11

(i) War fuel costs and funding to en-12

sure that logistical support to combat oper-13

ations is not degraded due to cash losses 14

in the Department of Defense’s baseline 15

fuel program. 16

(ii) Enough of any base fuel shortfall 17

attributable to fuel price increases to main-18

tain sufficient on-hand cash for the De-19

fense Working Capital Funds to cover 20

seven days disbursements. 21

(3) Excluded items from Overseas Contingency 22

Funding that must be funded from the base budget: 23

(A) Training vehicles, aircraft, ammuni-24

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stocks of specialized, theater-specific equipment 1

that is required to support combat operations in 2

the theater of operations, and support to de-3

ployment-specific training described above. 4

(B) Acceleration of equipment service life 5

extension programs already in the Future Years 6

Defense Plan. 7

(C) Base Realignment and Closure 8

projects. 9

(D) Family support initiatives: 10

(i) Construction of childcare facilities. 11

(ii) Funding for private-public part-12

nerships to expand military families’ access 13

to childcare. 14

(iii) Support for servicemembers’ 15

spouses’ professional development. 16

(E) Programs to maintain industrial base 17

capacity including ‘‘war-stoppers’’. 18

(F) Personnel: 19

(i) Recruiting and retention bonuses 20

to maintain end-strength. 21

(ii) Basic Pay and the Basic allow-22

ances for Housing and Subsistence for per-23

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(iii) Individual augmentees on a case- 1

by-case basis. 2

(G) Support for the personnel, operations, 3

or the construction or maintenance of facilities 4

at United States Offices of Security Coopera-5

tion in theater. 6

(H) Costs for reconfiguring prepositioned 7

supplies and equipment or for maintaining 8

them. 9

(4) Items proposed for increases in 10

reprogrammings or as payback for prior 11

reprogrammings must meet the criteria above. 12

SEC. 307. INCREASE ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF FEDERAL 13

BUILDINGS. 14

(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 15

(1) Private sector funding and expertise can 16

help address the energy efficiency challenges facing 17

the United States. 18

(2) The Federal Government spends more than 19

$6 billion annually in energy costs. 20

(3) Reducing Federal energy costs can help 21

save money, create jobs, and reduce waste. 22

(4) Energy savings performance contracts and 23

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private sector investment to upgrade Federal facili-1

ties without any up-front cost to the taxpayer. 2

(5) Performance contracting is a way to retrofit 3

Federal buildings using private sector investment in 4

the absence of appropriated dollars. Retrofits seek to 5

reduce energy use, improve infrastructure, protect 6

national security, and cut facility operations and 7

maintenance costs. 8

(b) USE OF ENERGY AND WATER EFFICIENCY 9

MEASURES IN FEDERAL BUILDINGS.— 10

(1) IMPLEMENTATION OF IDENTIFIED ENERGY 11

AND WATER EFFICIENCY MEASURES.—Section 12

543(f)(4) of the National Energy Conservation Pol-13

icy Act (42 U.S.C. 8253(f)(4)) is amended to read 14

as follows: 15

‘‘(4) IMPLEMENTATION OF IDENTIFIED ENERGY 16

AND WATER EFFICIENCY MEASURES.— 17

‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 2 years 18

after the completion of each evaluation under 19

paragraph (3), each energy manager shall con-20

sider— 21

‘‘(i) implementing any energy- or 22

water-saving or conservation measure that 23

the Federal agency identified in the evalua-24


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tion conducted under paragraph (3) that is 1

life cycle cost-effective; and 2

‘‘(ii) bundling individual measures of 3

varying paybacks together into combined 4

projects. 5

‘‘(B) MEASURES NOT IMPLEMENTED.— 6

The energy manager, as part of the certification 7

system under paragraph (7) and using guide-8

lines developed by the Secretary, shall provide 9

reasons for not implementing any life cycle 10

cost-effective measures under subparagraph 11

(A).’’. 12

(2) ANNUAL CONTRACTING GOAL.—Section 13

543(f)(10)(C) of the National Energy Conservation 14

Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 8253(f)(10)(C)) is amended— 15

(A) by striking ‘‘Each Federal agency’’ 16

and inserting the following: 17

‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Each Federal 18

agency’’; and 19

(B) by adding at the end the following new 20

clauses: 21

‘‘(ii) TRACKING.—Each Federal agen-22

cy shall use the benchmarking systems se-23

lected or developed for the agency under 24

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ized by the agency through the implemen-1

tation of energy- or water-saving or con-2

servation measures pursuant to paragraph 3

(4), and shall submit information regard-4

ing such savings to the Secretary to be 5

published on a public website of the De-6

partment of Energy. 7

‘‘(iii) CONSIDERATION.—Each Federal 8

agency shall consider using energy savings 9

performance contracts or utility energy 10

service contracts to implement energy- or 11

water-saving or conservation measures pur-12

suant to paragraph (4). 13

‘‘(iv) CONTRACTING GOAL.—It shall 14

be the goal of the Federal Government, in 15

the implementation of energy- or water- 16

saving or conservation measures pursuant 17

to paragraph (4), to enter into energy sav-18

ings performance contracts or utility en-19

ergy service contracts equal to 20

$1,000,000,000 in each year during the 5- 21

year period beginning on January 1, 2014. 22

‘‘(v) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not 23

later than September 30 of each year dur-24

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(iv), each Federal agency shall submit to 1

the Secretary information regarding 2

progress made by the agency towards 3

achieving the goal described in such clause. 4

Not later than 60 days after each such 5

September 30, the Secretary, acting 6

through the Federal Energy Management 7

Program, shall submit to the Committee 8

on Energy and Commerce of the House of 9

Representatives and the Committee on En-10

ergy and Natural Resources of the Senate 11

a report describing the progress made by 12

the Federal Government towards achieving 13

such goal.’’. 14

SEC. 308. REDUCE REDUNDANT HEALTH PAYMENTS FOR 15

SENIORS. 16

(a) STUDY.—The Secretary of Health and Human 17

Services, in cooperation with the Secretary of Veterans Af-18

fairs and the Secretary of Defense, shall conduct a study 19

examining the extent to which payments may be made 20

under both the Medicare Advantage program and under 21

the veterans health care system or the TRICARE program 22

for health care furnished to individuals who are eligible 23

under such Medicare Advantage program and the veterans 24

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(b) REPORT.—The Secretary shall submit a report to 1

Congress on the study conducted under subsection (a). 2

The report shall contain recommendations that— 3

(1) preserve access to benefits under the Medi-4

care program for individuals eligible for such bene-5

fits; 6

(2) focus on satisfaction and health outcomes of 7

such individuals with respect to such benefits; 8

(3) provide for the efficient use of Federal 9

funds; 10

(4) account for the adequacy of the veterans 11

health care system and the TRICARE program; and 12

(5) minimize disruption to the availability of 13

Medicare Advantage plans and networks of providers 14

participating in such plans. 15

(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 16

(1) The term ‘‘Medicare Advantage program’’ 17

means the program under part C of title XVIII of 18

the Social Security Act. 19

(2) The term ‘‘TRICARE program’’ has the 20

meaning given that term in section 1072(7) of title 21

10, United States Code. 22

(3) The term ‘‘veterans health care system’’ 23

means the health care system established under sec-24

tion 1705 of title 38, United States Code. 25


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SEC. 309. EFFICIENT MEDICARE BILLING. 1

(a) OPTION TO RECEIVE MEDICARE SUMMARY NO-2

TICE ELECTRONICALLY.— 3

(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 1806 of the Social 4

Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395b–7) is amended by 5

adding at the end the following new subsection: 6

‘‘(c) FORMAT OF STATEMENTS FROM SECRETARY.— 7

‘‘(1) ELECTRONIC OPTION BEGINNING IN 8

2015.—Subject to paragraph (2), for statements de-9

scribed in subsection (a) that are furnished for a pe-10

riod in 2015 or a subsequent year, in the case that 11

an individual described in subsection (a) elects, in 12

accordance with such form, manner, and time speci-13

fied by the Secretary, to receive such statement in 14

an electronic format, such statement shall be fur-15

nished to such individual for each period subsequent 16

to such election in such a format and shall not be 17

mailed to the individual. 18

‘‘(2) ONE-TIME REVOCATION OPTION.—An indi-19

vidual who makes an election described in paragraph 20

(1) may revoke such election once. 21

‘‘(3) NOTIFICATION.—The Secretary shall en-22

sure that, in the most cost effective manner and be-23

ginning January 1, 2017, a clear notification of the 24

option to elect to receive statements described in 25

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able, such as through the notices distributed under 1

section 1804, to individuals described in subsection 2

(a).’’. 3

(2) ENCOURAGED EXPANSION OF ELECTRONIC 4

STATEMENTS.—To the extent to which the Secretary 5

of Health and Human Services determines appro-6

priate, the Secretary shall— 7

(A) apply an option similar to the option 8

described in subsection (c)(1) of section 1806 of 9

the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395b–7) 10

(relating to the provision of the Medicare Sum-11

mary Notice in an electronic format), as added 12

by subsection (a), to other statements and noti-13

fications under title XVIII of such Act (42 14

U.S.C. 1395 et seq.); and 15

(B) provide such Medicare Summary No-16

tice and any such other statements and notifi-17

cations on a more frequent basis than is other-18

wise required under such title. 19

(b) RENEWAL OF MAC CONTRACTS.—Section 20

1874A(b)(1)(B) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 21

1395kk–1(b)(1)(B)) is amended by striking ‘‘5 years’’ and 22

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TITLE IV—SAVE IV 1



ability, Value, & Efficiency IV Act’’ or the ‘‘SAVE Act 4

IV’’. 5

SEC. 402. STUDY ON CHALLENGES IDENTITY THEFT POSES 6

FOR INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE. 7

(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Treasury (or 8

the Secretary’s delegate) shall conduct a study on the 9

challenges identity theft poses for the Internal Revenue 10

Service, especially the ability of the Internal Revenue 11

Service to identify false tax returns before fraudulent re-12

funds are issued. 13

(b) REPORT.—Not later than September 1, 2016, the 14

Secretary (or the Secretary’s delegate) shall submit to the 15

Congress a report on the study conducted under sub-16

section (a) and shall include in the report recommenda-17

tions to address the challenges identity theft poses for the 18

Internal Revenue Service. 19

SEC. 403. STUDY ON COST-EFFECTIVE ACQUISITION OF 20

MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES UNDER 21

THE MEDICARE PROGRAM. 22

(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 23

Human Services shall conduct a study that— 24


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(1) identifies categories of rental of medical 1

equipment and supplies (as defined in section 2

1834(j)(5) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1395m(j)(5)))— 3

(A) for which payment may be made under 4

title XVIII of the Social Security Act for the 5

rental of such a category of equipment and sup-6

plies; and 7

(B) with respect to which the Secretary de-8

termines that payment for the purchase of such 9

category of equipment and supplies, instead of 10

such rental, would result in lower expenditures 11

under such title; and 12

(2) for each category of equipment and supplies 13

identified under paragraph (1), provides rec-14

ommendations— 15

(A) on the extent to which payment should 16

be provided under such title for purchase in-17

stead of rental of such category of equipment 18

and supplies; and 19

(B) in the case that payment for the pur-20

chase of such a category is not authorized 21

under such title, for the development of a pay-22

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(b) REPORT.—Not later than one year after the date 1

of the enactment of this section, the Secretary of Health 2

and Human Services shall submit to Congress a report 3

on the study conducted under subsection (a) and shall in-4

clude in the report recommendations developed under 5

paragraph (2) of such subsection. 6

SEC. 404. REPORT ON FRAGMENTATION OF DEPARTMENT 7

OF DEFENSE FOREIGN LANGUAGE SUPPORT 8

PROGRAMS. 9

(a) REPORT REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary of De-10

fense shall prepare a report on streamlining the manage-11

ment of contracts for foreign language support programs 12

of the Department of Defense. 13

(b) MATTERS COVERED.—The report shall include— 14

(1) an assessment of the current approach 15

taken by the Department of Defense for managing 16

foreign language support contracts, including, at a 17

minimum— 18

(A) an analysis of spending for types of 19

foreign language support services and products 20

that have been acquired— 21

(i) by the executive agent for foreign 22

language support services; and 23

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(B) based on the results of the analysis 1

under subparagraph (A), a reevaluation of the 2

scope of the executive agent’s efforts to manage 3

foreign language support contracts to determine 4

if any adjustments are needed; 5

(2) recommendations to reduce fragmentation 6

in contracting for foreign language support pro-7

grams, including such recommendations as the Sec-8

retary determines appropriate relating to the adop-9

tion of uniform contracting procedures, increasing 10

collaboration among Department of Defense compo-11

nents, gaining efficiencies, and controlling spending. 12

(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 13

(1) FOREIGN LANGUAGE SUPPORT PRO-14

GRAMS.—The term ‘‘foreign language support pro-15

grams’’ includes a range of services and products 16

that the Department of Defense considers foreign 17

language support, such as translation and interpre-18

tation services, the assistance of personnel who pos-19

sess language skills, and foreign language instruc-20

tion. 21

(2) EXECUTIVE AGENT.—The term ‘‘executive 22

agent’’, with respect to foreign language support 23

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(d) SUBMISSION TO CONGRESS.—The report required 1

by this section shall be submitted to Congress not later 2

than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. 3

SEC. 405. AUDIT OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE BY PRI-4

VATE ENTITY. 5

(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 6

(1) Section 1003(a)(2)(A)(ii) of the National 7

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 8

(Public Law 111–84; 10 U.S.C. 2222 note) requires 9

that the financial statements of the Department of 10

Defense be validated as ready for audit by Sep-11

tember 30, 2017. 12

(2) Section 1003(a) of the National Defense 13

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 14

113–66; 127 Stat. 842; 10 U.S.C. 2222 note) re-15

quires that, upon the conclusion of fiscal year 2018, 16

the Secretary of Defense shall ensure that a full 17

audit is performed on the financial statements of the 18

Department of Defense for such fiscal year and sub-19

mit to Congress the results of that audit by not later 20

than March 31, 2019. 21

(b) REQUIREMENT.— 22

(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense 23

shall award a contract to a highly credentialed inde-24

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financial statements of the Department of Defense 1

for fiscal year 2018. Such audit shall be in addition 2

to the audit required to be performed by the Sec-3

retary of Defense on such financial statements for 4

that fiscal year. 5

(2) CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS.—The contract 6

awarded under paragraph (1) shall require the audi-7

tor to complete the audit and submit to Congress a 8

report on the results of the audit within 365 days 9

after award of the contract. 10

(3) SAVINGS INCENTIVE.—The contract also 11

shall provide for payment to the auditor of 1 percent 12

of any amounts identified by the auditor as potential 13

savings upon achievement of such savings, if 14

achievement of such savings occurs within 1 year 15

after completion of the audit. 16

(4) NATIONAL SECURITY PROTECTIONS.—The 17

contract awarded under paragraph (1) shall ensure 18

that the audit is carried out consistent with and sub-19

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SEC. 406. PREFERENCE FOR CONTRACTS WITH LOCAL AND 1

STATE GOVERNMENTS FOR SHARED PER-2

FORMANCE OF MAINTENANCE AND ADMINIS-3

TRATIVE FUNCTIONS AT MILITARY INSTAL-4

LATIONS. 5

(a) AUTHORITY.—Using funds appropriated to a 6

military department for operation and maintenance, the 7

Secretary of that military department is authorized and 8

encouraged to enter into contracts or other agreements for 9

the performance of maintenance and administrative func-10

tions at military installations in the United States under 11

the jurisdiction of the Secretary with a proximately located 12

local or State government, or combination of such govern-13

ments, in order to utilize the government’s efficiencies in 14

already performing such functions for the general public 15

and to reduce the cost to the Federal Government of pro-16

viding or procuring such functions. 17

(b) NATIONAL SECURITY PROTECTIONS.—The Sec-18

retary of a military department shall ensure that each con-19

tract and agreement entered into under this section is con-20

sistent with the security plan for the military installation. 21

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TH ST CONGRESS SESSION H. R. 614Sec. 307. Increase energy efficiency of Federal buildings. Sec. 308. Reduce redundant health payments for seniors. Sec. 309. Efficient Medicare billing