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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6279 
To improve the collection of labor data by Federal agencies to better measure 
and evaluate the outsourcing and off-shoring of public and private sector 
business operations and services. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 29, 2006 
Ms. DELAURO (for herself and Ms. LINDA T. SA´NCHEZ of California) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Edu-
cation and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To improve the collection of labor data by Federal agencies 
to better measure and evaluate the outsourcing and off- 
shoring of public and private sector business operations 
and services. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; PURPOSE. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Understanding Off-shoring and Outsourcing Act of 
2006’’. 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to improve 
Federal government data collection for evaluating and 
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measuring the outsourcing and off-shoring of public and 
private sector business operations and services. 
SEC. 2. BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS DATA. 
Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the De-
partment of Commerce shall revise its requirements for 
mandatory industry reporting of international services 
transactions. Such revisions shall lower by 50 percent the 
per-company monetary thresholds above which companies 
are required to report import and export services trans-
actions. 
SEC. 3. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS DATA. 
Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act , the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Depart-
ment of Labor shall make the following revisions to the 
procedures and methodologies related to its collection and 
disaggregation of data relating to mass layoffs, reloca-
tions, and employment: 
(1) REPORTING OF SMALLER MASS LAYOFFS.— 
The Bureau shall include in the collection of ex-
tended mass layoff statistics any private sector non-
farm employers who indicate that 25 or more work-
ers were separated from their jobs for a period of at 
least 31 days. 
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(2) DOMESTIC AND OVERSEAS RELOCATIONS.— 
The Bureau shall disaggregate data relating to mass 
layoffs due to relocations to provide separate statis-
tics for domestic and overseas relocations and shall 
publish subsets of such data disaggregated by indus-
try and region. 
(3) 
OCCUPATIONAL
EMPLOYMENT
STATIS-
TICS.—The Bureau shall make the changes it deter-
mines appropriate to its methodologies for collecting 
and analyzing occupational employment data in 
order to create time-series data on all 820 occupa-
tions in the Standard Occupational Classification 
(SOC) by industry and geographic area. 
SEC. 4. JOINT STUDY ON COORDINATING DATA. 
(a) STUDY.—The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the 
Department of Labor and the Bureau of Economic Anal-
ysis of the Department of Commerce shall jointly conduct 
a study to determine whether linking or coordinating their 
independent data relating to mass layoffs and import and 
export services transactions would improve the quality of 
information available about outsourcing and off-shoring of 
private sector business operations and services. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 18 months after the 
date of enactment of this Act, Bureaus referred to in sub-
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