1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Inspector General Recommendation Transparency Act of 2017 . 2. Inspector General open recommendations database Section 11(c) of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended by adding at the end the following: (5) Open recommendations database (A) Definitions In this paragraph— (i) the term designated Federal entity has the meaning given the term in section 8G(a)(2); and (ii) the term open recommendation means a recommendation— (I) issued by an Inspector General of an establishment or designated Federal entity and made publicly available; and (II) that has not been adopted or implemented by the establishment or designated Federal entity during the 1-year period following the date on which the recommendation was issued. (B) Establishment of database The Council shall establish and operate a publicly available database that— (i) is accessible via the website of the Council; and (ii) includes the information on open recommendations submitted by each Inspector General of an establishment or designated Federal entity under subparagraph (C). (C) Contents Not later than 1 year after the first semiannual reporting deadline described in section 5(a) that occurs after the date of enactment of this paragraph, and not less frequently than every 6 months thereafter, each Inspector General of an establishment or designated Federal entity shall submit to the Council, in a manner determined by the Council, the status and disposition of each open recommendation of the establishment or designated Federal entity, which shall include— (i) the number of recommendations issued by the Inspector General for the fiscal year; (ii) the number of recommendations described in clause (i) that are open recommendations; (iii) the title of each report in which an open recommendation was issued; (iv) the assigned number of each open recommendation, as designated within a report described in clause (iii); (v) a short description of each open recommendation