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The bill increases transparency and gives policymakers actionable, sector-specific data to help displaced workers and design responses, but it does so by imposing recurring reporting costs and creating risks to business confidentiality and employee privacy.
State and local governments, policymakers, and taxpayers will receive regular NAICS- and industry-level quarterly data on AI-driven hires, layoffs, retraining, and unfilled positions, enabling timely, targeted workforce and regional economic responses.
Low-income and middle-class workers displaced by AI can be identified for targeted retraining and assistance because employers must report how many employees are being retrained or helped.
Covered employers can submit required information via existing DOL or Census survey channels, reducing the need for entirely new reporting systems and lessening incremental paperwork for many businesses (including some small firms).
Small and mid-sized employers will incur ongoing administrative and compliance costs from quarterly reporting, which could strain budgets and operations—especially if regulatory thresholds expand coverage to firms not previously reporting.
Publishing underlying data risks exposing proprietary business information or sensitive employee details if confidentiality protections are inadequate, harming business competitiveness and worker privacy.
Quarterly public disclosure of AI-linked layoffs and sector impacts could stigmatize firms or industries and prompt adverse investor or consumer reactions before context or remediation is available.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires covered entities to file quarterly disclosures about AI-related layoffs, AI-driven hires, unfilled positions due to AI, retraining, and related data, including NAICS codes.
Introduced November 5, 2025 by Joshua David Hawley · Last progress November 5, 2025
Requires covered entities to file quarterly disclosures about AI-related job impacts across the United States (including territories and possessions). Reports must list AI-related layoffs, AI-driven hires, positions left unfilled because of AI, retraining activities, and other AI-job-impact data, and must include NAICS codes; the Department of Labor (with Census, OMB, and OPM coordination) will collect the data, prepare quarterly and annual summaries and analyses, and publish reports and underlying data. The measure establishes a short title and creates recurring reporting duties but does not authorize new spending or change existing statutes in the text provided.