Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that amends and addresses federal agency performance and accountability.

Highlights:

• Amends and addresses federal agency performance and accountability, including revising requirements regarding strategic reviews of federal agencies' performance goals, and requires a Deputy Performance Improvement Officer to support the Performance Improvement Officer (Sec. 1-3).

• Establishes that strategic reviews are not less frequent than annually and consistent with guidance issued by the Office of Management and Budget (Sec. 1-3).

• Requires that each agency must take specified actions, including (Sec. 4):

• For each goal or objective established in the agency's strategic plan, review the progress achieved toward the goal and the likelihood that the agency will achieve the goal;

• Identify any risks or impediments that would decrease the likelihood that the agency will achieve the goal; and

• For each goal at greatest risk of not being achieved, identify prospects and strategies for performance improvement.

• Requires that federal government priority goals (Sec. 4-7):

• Be updated and revised not less frequently than during the first year of each presidential term,

• Include plans for the achievement of each goal within each single presidential term, and 

• Explicitly cite any specific contents of the budget that support each goal.

• Requires that the Government Accountability Office report to Congress on the effectiveness of this bill (Sec. 8).

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