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The bill would improve recognition and data for strength and conditioning coaches—helping workers, employers, and public-safety/athletic organizations—while imposing modest administrative burdens and, critically, prohibiting new funding that could delay or limit the law’s effective implementation.
Strength and conditioning coaches would gain official occupational recognition, improving their labor-market visibility, career prospects, and ability to obtain targeted training and certifications.
Employers, schools, colleges, and policymakers would get clearer, more accurate workforce data to recruit qualified coaches, set hiring standards, and design training programs.
Athletes, first responders, and military personnel could benefit from better recognition of coach qualifications when hiring or allocating funding for training programs.
Prohibiting authorization of additional appropriations would constrain implementation: agencies may lack funds to carry out changes, delaying benefits and potentially harming low-income program beneficiaries and other intended recipients.
Reclassifying the occupation could cause transitional confusion in employment and wage statistics, temporarily complicating comparisons over time and decision-making by employers and analysts.
Adding a new SOC category and reporting requirements increases OMB and federal agency workload, creating administrative costs and marginally slowing the SOC revision and classification processes.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Directs OMB to consider adding a separate SOC occupation code for strength and conditioning coaches and to report to Congress if it declines.
Official title: To require the Office of Management and Budget to consider revising the Standard Occupational Classification system to establish a separate code for strength and conditioning coaches, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 29, 2026 by Burgess Owens · Last progress June 29, 2026
Directs the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to consider creating a distinct Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) detailed-occupation code for strength and conditioning coaches during the first SOC revision after the bill becomes law. If OMB decides not to create the separate code, the Director must report that decision and the rationale to two congressional committees within 30 days of that SOC revision. The bill states findings describing the typical education, supervised experience, and duties of strength and conditioning coaches and clarifies that no new money is authorized to implement the Act.