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The bill builds a richer, multi-frequency evidence base to help workers, employers, and governments respond to AI-driven changes in the labor market, but it does so with significant taxpayer costs, added reporting burdens, and meaningful privacy and governance risks that will require strong safeguards and funding discipline.
State and local policymakers, federal workforce agencies, and program designers will receive integrated, timely labor-market and AI-related data (monthly job flows, quarterly AI-adoption metrics, annual time-use, and longitudinal cohorts), enabling better-targeted workforce programs and faster policy responses.
Workers, jobseekers, and training providers will gain clearer, evidence-based information on changing skill needs and career prospects—helping individuals choose training, reskilling, and job-search strategies.
Jobseekers and employers will benefit from improved labor-market transparency (industry-level employment, earnings, job openings, and mobility), which can improve job matching and individual career decisions.
Taxpayers and federal budgets face substantial and open-ended costs from creating and maintaining new monthly/quarterly/annual/longitudinal surveys and reports, with no specified offsets.
Workers, employers, and firms face increased privacy and confidentiality risks because highly detailed monthly, time-use, firm-level, and longitudinal data could be re-identifiable if protections are inadequate.
Small businesses and other employers may incur recurring reporting burdens and compliance costs from more frequent data collection (monthly/quarterly), disproportionately affecting smaller firms.
Based on analysis of 8 sections of legislative text.
Requires new monthly, recurring, and longitudinal federal surveys and annual reports to measure AI and related technologies’ effects on the workforce and authorizes funding without specific amounts.
Official title: Authorize certain labor market data collection activities and to improve Federal measurement of the workforce impacts of artificial intelligence, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 10, 2026 by Mark Edward Kelly · Last progress June 10, 2026
Creates new, recurring federal surveys and reporting to measure how artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies affect jobs, hiring, separations, time use, earnings, training, and long‑term economic mobility. It directs the Labor Department to run monthly establishment surveys, recurring household time‑use surveys, and decennial cohort longitudinal surveys; directs the Census Bureau to add AI adoption questions to its Business Trends and Outlook Survey and publish quarterly AI adoption data; and requires annual joint reports by Labor and Commerce synthesizing federal data on AI workforce impacts. Authorization of funding is included with unspecified amounts and most new authorities expire after 10 years where noted.