{"id":"4ca7519cc2bc6508","congress_number":119,"bill_type":"s","bill_number":"3339","title":"AI Workforce PREPARE Act","plain_summary":"Focuses on preparing the American workforce for AI-driven changes through training, reskilling, and education programs. It addresses displacement risk and skills gaps as AI adoption spreads across industries.","ai_relevance_score":0.9,"topics":["labor","research_funding"],"status":"committee","introduced_at":"2025-12-03","last_action_at":"2025-12-03","last_action_text":"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.","sponsor_id":"B001299","full_text_url":null,"created_at":"2026-08-27T17:36:46.532Z","updated_at":"2026-09-09T02:08:29.132Z","ai_reasoning":null,"reported_at":null,"passed_house_at":null,"passed_senate_at":null,"became_law_at":null,"recorded_votes":[],"classifier":null,"url":"https://whovotedwhy.com/bills/4ca7519cc2bc6508","congress_gov_url":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3339","sponsor":{"id":"B001299","bioguide_id":"B001299","first_name":"Jim","last_name":"Banks","full_name":"Jim Banks","party":"R","state":"IN","chamber":"senate","district":null,"title":"Senator","photo_url":null,"twitter_handle":"RepJimBanks","official_website":"https://www.banks.senate.gov","fec_candidate_ids":["H6IN03229","S4IN00196"],"lis_id":"S429","is_active":true,"term_start":"2025-01-03","term_end":"2031-01-03","created_at":"2026-09-08T22:51:51.014Z","updated_at":"2026-09-09T02:08:13.531Z"},"roll_calls":[],"citing_statements":[{"id":"9487eda9a837932f","politician_id":"B001299","type":"press_release","content":"WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.), chairman of the Senate HELP Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety, convened a hearing titled “The Impact of AI on the Workforce” to examine how artificial intelligence is changing the American workforce and what Congress must do to ensure that American workers benefit from the next generation of technological innovation. Witnesses agreed that AI is transforming the tasks people perform on the job more than replacing workers outright, while warning that changes to entry-level hiring and career pipelines require closer attention.\n\nIn his opening remarks, Chairman Banks (R-Ind.) emphasized that helping workers succeed in the AI economy begins with better information about how AI is changing jobs. He highlighted his bipartisan AI Workforce PREPARE Act, legislation to modernize federal labor data, improve AI workforce forecasting, and give policymakers, educators, and employers the tools they need to prepare workers for the jobs of the future.\n\n“America will win the AI race with China by maximizing the capabilities of all our companies and all our workers.”\n\nClick here or above to watch the opening statement.\n\nSen. Banks noted that while some have predicted widespread job losses, the evidence so far points to a different reality: AI is changing how work is performed, creating new skill demands, and making it more important than ever to preserve the career pathways that help young Americans gain experience and advance in higher-paying jobs.\n\nDuring the hearing, Sen. Banks questioned Indiana workforce and economic experts about how AI is changing jobs across the Hoosier State.\n\nClick here or above to watch his line of questioning.\n\nKen Clark, President and CEO of EmployIndy, told Chairman Banks that AI’s impact will differ across industries, with healthcare, logistics, transportation, and hospitality expected to see significant productivity gains. Clark also stressed that employers increasingly expect workers to have practical AI skills and that students should begin developing those skills through work-based learning before entering the workforce.\n\nSen. Banks also questioned Carol Rogers, Director of the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University, who explained that while the Midwest initially trailed behind coastal states in AI adoption and productivity gains, the region is now catching up — and in some Census Bureau measures surpassing states like California. Rogers stated that businesses need better information on how AI is being implemented, stronger governance standards, and improved data collection to understand which skills employers demand and how AI is changing work. Throughout the hearing, witnesses reinforced the need for better labor market data to better understand AI’s effects on hiring, skills, and career mobility. They also testified that current evidence does not support claims of widespread unemployment but instead points to a labor market in which workers will increasingly need new skills as AI changes workplace tasks and responsibilities.\n\nClick here or above to watch his closing statement.\n\nSen. Banks’ AI Workforce PREPARE Act would improve federal workforce data collection by adding AI-specific questions to major labor surveys, establishing an AI Workforce Research Hub, improving collaboration between federal and state agencies, and helping policymakers better understand how AI is changing jobs so workers can be trained before disruption becomes displacement.\n\nRead more on the hearing here.\n\nWatch Fox News live-look-in to the hearing here.\n\nWatch Nexstar’s nationally syndicated local news coverage of the hearing here.\n\n###","url":"https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/sen-banks-examines-how-ai-is-reshaping-americas-workforce/","published_at":"2026-07-30","ai_topics":["jobs","research","innovation"],"ai_stance":"mixed","ai_summary":"Banks argues AI is reshaping rather than eliminating jobs and pushes his AI Workforce PREPARE Act to expand federal AI labor data collection so workers can be trained before displacement, while framing the goal as winning the AI race with China.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":["4ca7519cc2bc6508"],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[{"bill_id":"4ca7519cc2bc6508","method":"title"}],"classifier":null},{"id":"d39a8343ab7d21d3","politician_id":"B001299","type":"press_release","content":"WASHINGTON, D.C. – This afternoon, HELP Employment and Workplace Safety Subcommittee Chairman Jim Banks (R-Ind.) delivered the following opening statement at a hearing titled “The Impact of AI on the Workforce”:\n\nClick here or the image above to view full opening statement.\n\n“First, it is an honor and a pleasure to lead the subcommittee. I plan to examine the challenges that American workers face and explore policy solutions to increase opportunity, promote fairness, and support families.\n\n“I appreciate being able to work with you, Ranking Member Hickenlooper, and I intend to be very active in the time we have left.\n\n“Before I go any further, I ask unanimous consent for Senator Blunt Rochester to waive onto the Subcommittee for the purpose of today’s hearing. I want to welcome our witnesses this afternoon. We have a distinguished panel of artificial intelligence researchers and workforce development leaders to put the impact of AI on the workforce in perspective.\n\n“According to Goldman Sachs, AI will drive 7 trillion dollars of worldwide investment and economic activity over the next decade.\n\n“The 7 trillion-dollar question is, who benefits from that?\n\n“But it’s not a question for the future. AI is all around us, and employers, workers, and governments are exploring the answer right now.\n\n“AI promises to raise productivity and reshape work. It can also disrupt how the workplace is organized and create anxiety.\n\n“There’s no shortage of doom-and-gloom predictions about mass displacement of workers, but we haven’t seen that begin to happen.\n\n“Based on all the evidence, three things seem to be happening so far: (1) Hiring of entry-level workers is somewhat weaker; (2) AI is transforming tasks more than jobs; (3) And the skills that employers need and how workers learn those skills is changing.\n\n“The downturn in entry-level hiring is due to several factors, and AI is just one. Some researchers believe the Federal Reserve is partly responsible. I look forward to delving into that today.\n\n“Even in the most AI-exposed occupations, we haven’t seen any significant change in employment, but the way workers allocate their time is changing.\n\n“In some occupations, things like data entry and simple coding are already mostly automated, but checking AI output is a whole new discipline.\n\n“Finally, when we consider how workers acquire and use skills, we have to think about employment pipelines.\n\n“A lot of workforce training happens on the job. Entry-level workers aren’t just hired to do their jobs, they’re hired to gain experience and grow into more advanced jobs.\n\n“Every master craftsman was once an apprentice, every doctor started out as a resident, and most of our staffers started as interns.\n\n“The real challenge is for graduates and young workers to acquire the AI-related skills they need to enter the workforce and get on the first rung of their career ladders.\n\n“If those opportunities dry up or some young workers can’t access them, it will be a big problem in the labor market over the long term.\n\n“Helping workers master the skills they need to succeed in the AI economy starts with getting better data.\n\n“Existing labor statistics too often fail to tell us how occupations’ tasks are changing, what skills are needed, which occupations will grow and shrink, and how workers move through the labor force because of AI.\n\n“That is why I introduced the AI Workforce Prepare Act with Sen. Hickenlooper, Sen. Husted, and Sen. Hassan.\n\n“The Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics need more expertise to analyze and forecast AI’s impacts. They need to share more data with state and local governments and collaborate with private researchers.\n\n“Billions of dollars of spending on workforce development programs rely on good data. But better data is not a goal in itself. We need to make better decisions to beat China in the AI race.\n\n“We need to train and equip American workers in nearly every industry to compete and win in the AI economy. We also need to make","url":"https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-banks-holds-hearing-on-the-impact-of-ai-on-the-workforce/","published_at":"2026-07-29","ai_topics":["jobs","innovation","research","national_security"],"ai_stance":"mixed","ai_summary":"Banks argues AI's workforce effects require better federal labor data and worker training to beat China, favoring data-gathering over restrictive regulation.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":["4ca7519cc2bc6508"],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[{"bill_id":"4ca7519cc2bc6508","method":"title"}],"classifier":null}],"provenance":{"commit":"38624a3af16ec6b3fff9b27c7d1d9f2cb7fe9152","generated_at":"2026-09-11T15:06:57.105Z","schema_version":2,"manifest":"https://whovotedwhy.com/data/index.json"}}