Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Better Labor Statistics Act” or the “BLS Act”.
Better Labor Statistics Act
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.
Sec. 2 Modernizing duties and terms relating to the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Additional duties—
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—
in the first sentence, by striking “Secretary of Labor may collate” and inserting “Secretary of Labor shall collate”; and
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”.
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 4, 1913, entitled “An Act to create a Department of Labor” (29 U.S.C. 2; Chap. 141), the Secretary of Labor shall include, at a minimum, data disaggregated by the demographic categories of geography, race, ethnicity, and gender.”.
Modernizing terms— 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), as amended by subsection (a), is further amended—
in the first sentence—
by striking “report at least once each year, or oftener” and inserting “publicly report, in accordance with the first section of Public Law 94–311, at least once each year, or more frequently”;
by striking “provided for his department” and inserting “provided for the Department of Labor”; and
by striking “such manner as to him” and inserting “such manner as the Secretary”; and
in the last sentence, by striking “such manner as he may deem satisfactory” and inserting “such manner as the Secretary may deem satisfactory”.
Heading— The Law Revision Counsel is directed to, where the first section of Public Law 94–311 (29 U.S.C. 8; 90 Stat. 688), as amended by subsection (a)(2), is displayed in the United States Code, designate the heading of such section as “Unemployment data relating to individual demographics”.