AWARE Act

[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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