Washington, D.C. – Today, President Trump signed into law the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act (H.R. 4174, S. 2046), which includes the Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act (Title II). The package passed Congress on Monday, December 31, 2018.
The OPEN Government Data Act requires all non-sensitive government data to be made available in open and machine-readable formats by default. It establishes Chief Data Officers (CDO) at federal agencies, as well as a CDO Council.
https://www.datacoalition.org/press-releases/president-signs-government-wide-open-data-bill/
OPEN Government Data Act passes.
The OPEN Government Data Act will ensure that the federal government releases valuable data sets, follows best practices in data management, and commits to making data available to the public in a non-proprietary and electronic format.
https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/15/open-government-data-act/
(Score: 1) by bussdriver on Wednesday January 16 2019, @05:55PM
The bill passed with huge majorities. It wouldn't need Trump other than the Senate seems to be held hostage by the Majority Leader who won't disagree with Trump in the slightest anymore. Did his wife do something corrupt that Trump knows about? (she works for Trump.)
Conspiracies aside, Trump wasn't needed to pass this law and since he needs to have something (having done so little) he might as well sign some papers he won't ever read anyway.