To amend the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act to require a plan for data collection and analytical capability relating to the skilled technical workforce, and for other purposes.

This bill changes an existing federal science law dealing with the skilled technical workforce. Currently, the law requires a one-time report with the results of an assessment of surveys on this workforce. The bill would instead require a plan for starting and keeping a data collection and analysis capability within the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. It would also require this reporting to happen every two years after the first deadline, and it would describe the surveys covered simply as surveys on the skilled technical workforce.

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Sponsors

• Hillary J. Scholten Democrat sponsor
• 5 cosponsors