Sec. 7. Appearances before and reports to congress
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The Director of the Agency shall appear before Congress at semi-annual hearings regarding the reports required under subsection (b). The Agency shall, concurrent with each semi-annual hearing referred to in subsection (a), prepare and submit to the President and Congress, a report, beginning with the session following the designated transfer date, and shall publish such report on the website of the Agency. The reports required by subsection
(b)shall include— a discussion of the significant problems faced by persons in exercising their rights under this Act and Federal privacy laws; a justification of the budget request of the previous year; a list of the significant rules and orders adopted by the Agency, as well as other significant initiatives conducted by the Agency, during the preceding year and the plan of the Agency for rules, orders, or other initiatives to be undertaken during the upcoming period; an analysis of complaints about practices relating to the collection, processing, or sharing of personal data that the Agency has received and collected in its central database on complaints during the preceding year; a list, with a brief statement of the issues, of the public supervisory and enforcement actions to which the Agency was a party during the preceding year; the actions taken regarding rules, orders, and supervisory actions with respect to data aggregators; an assessment of significant actions by State attorneys general or State regulators relating to this Act or other Federal privacy laws; an analysis of the efforts of the Agency to fulfill the civil rights mandate of the Agency; and an analysis of the efforts of the Agency to increase workforce and contracting diversity.