H.R. 9381

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9381 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 9381

To direct the Bureau of Labor Statistics to report on the usage of 
artificial intelligence in the workplace.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

June 22, 2026

Mr. Walberg introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and Workforce

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A BILL

To direct the Bureau of Labor Statistics to report on the usage of 
artificial intelligence in the workplace.

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 ``AI Workforce Assessment and Research 
Enhancement Act'' or the ``AWARE Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress finds the following:
(1) Artificial intelligence (in this section referred to as 
``AI'') has significant potential for workplace applications 
and may alter labor market demand by automating, augmenting, or 
creating workplace tasks and changing the nature of work across 
industries and occupations.
(2) Policymakers, educators, workforce training providers, 
businesses, workers, and researchers would benefit from 
improved data and analysis to understand and respond to the 
effects of AI on employment, occupations, tasks, wages, hiring, 
training, and general workforce needs.
(3) The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of 
Labor is the principal Federal agency responsible for 
collecting, analyzing, and disseminating labor market and 
workforce statistics through employer-side, worker-side, and 
longitudinal statistical programs.
(4) The Bureau of Labor Statistics conducts surveys and 
data collection activities relating to employment, wages, 
occupations, labor force participation, work arrangements, and 
business conditions.
(5) The data collection programs of the Bureau of Labor 
Statistics provide essential information on labor market 
conditions and workforce trends, but were not designed to 
adequately measure on a timely basis--
(A) employer adoption of AI technologies;
(B) worker-level use of AI technologies within jobs 
and occupations;
(C) AI-related changes in workplace tasks, duties, 
and work organization;
(D) AI-related training, retraining, or upskilling 
activities;
(E) the effects of AI on hiring, vacancies, hours, 
wages, contracting arrangements, or employment levels; 
or
(F) the emergence of new workplace duties, tasks, 
job titles, or staffing needs associated with AI.
(6) Certain related concepts are measured in other Federal 
statistical programs, including programs administered by the 
Bureau of the Census and the National Center for Science and 
Engineering Statistics, but important gaps remain in the 
issuance of timely, representative, and consistent labor market 
data.
(7) Effective measurement of AI in the workforce may 
require coordinated employer-side and worker-side data 
collection approaches in order to capture business adoption, 
worker experience, task-level changes, and labor market 
adjustment effects.
(8) Improved measurement of AI use and its labor market 
effects will strengthen workforce analysis, support further 
economic and workforce policy development, improve employment 
projections and related research, and provide employers, 
workers, and educators with more information to more 
effectively respond to technological change in their 
workplaces.

SEC. 3. LABOR STATISTICS REPORTING ON THE USAGE OF ARTIFICIAL 
INTELLIGENCE.

(a) In General.--Section 4 of the Act of March 4, 1913, titled ``An 
Act to create a Department of Labor'' (29 U.S.C. 2) is amended--
(1) in the first sentence, by inserting ``which shall 
include full and complete statistics on the usage of artificial 
intelligence (as defined in section 5002 of the National 
Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 (15 U.S.C. 
9401)) in such conditions of labor and such products and 
distribution,'' after ``full and complete statistics of the 
conditions of labor and the products and distribution of the 
products of the same,''; and
(2) in the second sentence, by striking ``and the total 
hours of employment,'' and inserting ``the total hours of 
employment, and the usage of artificial intelligence (as 
defined in section 5002 of the National Artificial Intelligence 
Initiative Act of 2020 (15 U.S.C. 9401)),''.
(b) Deadline for Initial Collection.--The Bureau of Labor 
Statistics shall begin collecting, under section 4 of the Act of March 
4, 1913, titled ``An Act to create a Department of Labor'' (29 U.S.C. 
2), as amended by subsection (a), the statistics on the usage of 
artificial intelligence described in the amendments made by paragraphs 
(1) and (2) of subsection (a) not later than 18 months after the date 
of enactment of this Act.

SEC. 4. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEFINED.

In this Act, the term ``artificial intelligence'' has the meaning 
given the term in section 5002 of the National Artificial Intelligence 
Initiative Act of 2020 (15 U.S.C. 9401).
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