Attachment 1 - Title 29

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TITLE 29—LABOR

Act Mar. 18, 1904, changed name of Department of
Labor to Bureau of Labor in Department of Commerce
and Labor.
Act Mar. 4, 1913, created Department of Labor and
transferred Bureau of Labor from Department of Commerce and Labor to newly created Department of
Labor, redesignating such transferred Bureau as Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Executive Documents
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees,
and agencies of Department of Labor, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of Labor, with power to delegate,
see Reorg. Plan No. 6 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat.
1263, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

§ 2. Collection, collation, and reports of labor statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, shall collect,
collate, and report at least once each year, or
oftener if necessary, full and complete statistics
of the conditions of labor and the products and
distribution of the products of the same, and to
this end said Secretary shall have power to employ any or either of the bureaus provided for
his department and to rearrange such statistical
work, and to distribute or consolidate the same
as may be deemed desirable in the public interests; and said Secretary shall also have authority to call upon other departments of the Government for statistical data and results obtained by them; and said Secretary of Labor
may collate, arrange, and publish such statistical information so obtained in such manner as
to him may seem wise.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics shall also collect, collate, report, and publish at least once
each month full and complete statistics of the
volume of and changes in employment, as indicated by the number of persons employed, the
total wages paid, and the total hours of employment, in the service of the Federal Government,
the States and political subdivisions thereof,
and in the following industries and their principal branches: (1) Manufacturing; (2) mining,
quarrying, and crude petroleum production; (3)
building construction; (4) agriculture and lumbering; (5) transportation, communication, and
other public utilities; (6) the retail and wholesale trades; and such other industries as the Secretary of Labor may deem it in the public interest to include. Such statistics shall be reported
for all such industries and their principal
branches throughout the United States and also
by States and/or Federal reserve districts and by
such smaller geographical subdivisions as the
said Secretary may from time to time prescribe.
The said Secretary is authorized to arrange with
any Federal, State, or municipal bureau or
other governmental agency for the collection of
such statistics in such manner as he may deem
satisfactory, and may assign special agents of
the Department of Labor to any such bureau or
agency to assist in such collection.
(Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 4, 37 Stat. 737; July 7, 1930,
ch. 873, 46 Stat. 1019.)

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Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS

1930—Act July 7, 1930, inserted second par.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
CENSUS DATA ON WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES; STUDY
AND REPORT
For provisions requiring Bureaus of Labor Statistics
and the Census to include certain data on womenowned businesses in census reports, and requiring a
study and report on the most cost effective and accurate means to gather and present such data, see section
501 of Pub. L. 100–533, set out as a note under section 131
of Title 13, Census.
CONSUMER PRICE INDEX FOR OLDER AMERICANS
Pub. L. 100–175, title I, § 191, Nov. 29, 1987, 101 Stat.
967, provided that: ‘‘The Secretary of Labor shall,
through the Bureau of Labor Statistics, develop, from
existing data sources, a reweighted index of consumer
prices which reflects the expenditures for consumption
by Americans 62 years of age and older. The Secretary
shall furnish to the Congress the index within 180 days
after the date of enactment of this Act [Nov. 29, 1987].
The Secretary shall include with the index furnished a
report which explains the characteristics of the reweighted index, the research necessary to develop and
measure accurately the rate of inflation affecting such
Americans, and provides estimates of time and cost required for additional activities necessary to carry out
the objectives of this section.’’
PRISON STATISTICS REPORT
Joint Res. June 17, 1940, ch. 389, 54 Stat. 401, authorized Bureau of Labor Statistics to furnish a report to
Congress before May 1, 1941, on kind, amount, and value
of all goods produced in State and Federal prisons.
Executive Documents
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees,
and agencies of Department of Labor, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of Labor, with power to delegate,
see Reorg. Plan No. 6 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat.
1263, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

§ 2a. Omitted
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section, act Feb. 24, 1927, ch. 189, title IV, 44 Stat.
1222, which related to collection of statistical reports
through local special agents, was from an appropriations act for the Departments of State, Justice, the Judiciary, and Departments of Commerce and Labor for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and was not repeated in subsequent appropriation acts.

§ 2b. Studies of productivity and labor costs in
industries
The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United
States Department of Labor is authorized and
directed to make continuing studies of productivity and labor costs in the manufacturing,
mining, transportation, distribution, and other
industries.
(June 7, 1940, ch. 267, 54 Stat. 249; Aug. 30, 1954,
ch. 1076, § 1(27), 68 Stat. 968.)