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[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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