[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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