[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2356 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
108th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 2356
To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to issue
guidance for, and provide oversight of, the management of
micropurchases made with Governmentwide commercial purchase cards, and
for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
April 28, 2004
Ms. Collins (for herself and Mr. Feingold) introduced the following
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on
Governmental Affairs
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A BILL
To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to issue
guidance for, and provide oversight of, the management of
micropurchases made with Governmentwide commercial purchase cards, and
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Purchase Card Waste Elimination Act
of 2004''.
SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR GUIDANCE.
(a) Office of Management and Budget Policy Guidance.--Not later
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director
of the Office of Management and Budget shall issue guidelines to assist
the heads of executive agencies in improving the management of the use
of the Governmentwide commercial purchase card for making
micropurchases. The Director shall include guidelines on the following
matters:
(1) Analysis of purchase card expenditures to identify
opportunities for achieving savings through micropurchases made
in economical volumes.
(2) Negotiation of discount agreements with major vendors
accepting the purchase card.
(3) Establishment of communication programs to ensure that
purchase card holders receive information pertaining to the
availability of discounts, including programs for the training
of purchase card holders on the availability of discounts.
(4) Assessment of cardholder purchasing practices.
(5) Collection and dissemination of best practices and
successful strategies for achieving savings in micropurchases.
(b) General Services Administration.--The Administrator of General
Services shall direct the purchase card program manager of the General
Services Administration--
(1) to continue efforts to improve reporting by financial
institutions that issue the Governmentwide commercial purchase
card so that the General Services Administration has the data
needed to identify opportunities for achieving savings; and
(2) to ensure that the acquisition center contracting
officers of the General Services Administration actively pursue
point-of-sale discounts with major vendors accepting the
purchase card so that any Federal Government purchaser using
the purchase card can benefit from such point-of-sale
discounts.
(c) Agency Reporting Requirement.--The purchase card program
manager for each executive agency shall, as directed by the Director of
the Office of Management and Budget, submit to the Director periodic
reports on the actions taken in such executive agency pursuant to the
guidelines issued under subsection (a).
(d) Congressional Oversight.--Not later than December 31 of the
year following the year in which this Act is enacted, and December 31
of each of the ensuing three years, the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget shall submit to the Committee on Governmental
Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Government Reform of the
House of Representatives a report summarizing the progress made during
the fiscal year ending in the year in which such report is due--
(1) in improving the management of the use of the
Governmentwide commercial purchase card for making
micropurchases; and
(2) in achieving savings in micropurchases made with such
card, expressed in terms of savings achieved by each executive
agency and the total savings achieved Governmentwide.
(e) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) The term ``executive agency'' has the meaning given
such term in section 4 of the Office of Federal Procurement
Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 403).
(2) The term ``micropurchase'' means a purchase in an
amount not in excess of the micropurchase threshold, as defined
in section 32 of such Act (41 U.S.C. 428).
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