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

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