H.R. 7804

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7804 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 7804

To direct the Secretary of Labor to perform additional duties, to 
modernize certain laws regarding the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and 
for other purposes.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 4, 2026

Ms. Pressley (for herself and Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
Workforce

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A BILL

To direct the Secretary of Labor to perform additional duties, to 
modernize certain laws regarding the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and 
for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``Better Labor Statistics Act'' or the 
``BLS Act''.

SEC. 2. MODERNIZING DUTIES AND TERMS RELATING TO THE BUREAU OF LABOR 
STATISTICS.

(a) Additional Duties.--
(1) Labor statistics.--Section 4 of the Act of March 4, 
1913, titled ``An Act to create a Department of Labor'' (29 
U.S.C. 2; Chap. 141), is amended--
(A) in the first sentence, by striking ``Secretary 
of Labor may collate'' and inserting ``Secretary of 
Labor shall collate''; and
(B) in the third sentence, by striking ``Such 
statistics shall be reported'' and inserting ``Such 
statistics shall be publicly reported, in accordance 
with the first section of Public Law 94-311, online by 
the first Friday of each month, including''.
(2) Demographics.--The first section of Public Law 94-311 
(29 U.S.C. 8; 90 Stat. 688) following the resolving clause is 
amended by striking ``unemployment data'' and all that follows 
and inserting ``unemployment data relating to individual 
demographics. In each labor statistics report required by 
section 4 of the Act of March 4, 1913, entitled `An Act to 
create a Department of Labor' (29 U.S.C. 2; Chap. 141), the 
Secretary of Labor shall include, at a minimum, data 
disaggregated by the demographic categories of geography, race, 
ethnicity, and gender.''.
(b) Modernizing Terms.--Section 4 of the Act of March 4, 1913, 
titled ``An Act to create a Department of Labor'' (29 U.S.C. 2; Chap. 
141), as amended by subsection (a), is further amended--
(1) in the first sentence--
(A) by striking ``report at least once each year, 
or oftener'' and inserting ``publicly report, in 
accordance with the first section of Public Law 94-311, 
at least once each year, or more frequently'';
(B) by striking ``provided for his department'' and 
inserting ``provided for the Department of Labor''; and
(C) by striking ``such manner as to him'' and 
inserting ``such manner as the Secretary''; and
(2) in the last sentence, by striking ``such manner as he 
may deem satisfactory'' and inserting ``such manner as the 
Secretary may deem satisfactory''.
(c) Heading.--The Law Revision Counsel is directed to, where the 
first section of Public Law 94-311 (29 U.S.C. 8; 90 Stat. 688), as 
amended by subsection (a)(2), is displayed in the United States Code, 
designate the heading of such section as ``Unemployment data relating 
to individual demographics''.
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