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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Jun 9, 1997
Responsive Government Act - Directs each Federal agency, no later than 180 days after enactment of this Act, to prescribe regulations requiring each office of the agency having contact with the public to: (1) ensure that the telephone number for the office is published in an appropriate telephone directory widely available to the local public; (2) provide a person to answer the telephone line through which the office makes initial contact with the public; (3) prohibit the use of any electronic, computer, or mechanical device to answer such telephone line, except in an office in which there is one employee; (4) provide for the answering of such telephone line u: l 5:00 p.m. according to the time zone in which the office is located, for which the office is conducting official business; and (5) require all correspondence originating from the agency to include the official telephone number of the person sending the correspondence. Directs the head of each Federal agency to: (1) establish the location of each service oriented office in an area with parking facilities accessible to the public; (2) take such actions as necessary to remove any computer game program not required for the official business of the agency from any agency computer equipment; and (3) prohibit the installation of any computer game program not required for the official business of the agency into agency computer equipment. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to prohibit the head of a Federal executive agency from accepting delivery of computer equipment loaded with game programs not required for an official purpose under the terms of the contract under which the equipment is delivered.
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Sen. Faircloth, Lauch [R-NC] · R–NC
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Referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5419-5420)
Introduced in Senate
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