Sec. 1301. Authority to transfer Department of Labor appropriations, to include Puerto Rico in reports of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
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For fiscal year 2018, in addition to any other authority to transfer an amount appropriated to an account of the Department of Labor, the Secretary of Labor may transfer not more than $1,800,000 to any account of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from an amount appropriated to any other account of the Department of Labor. Any amount transferred under subsection
(a)shall be used solely to study— the feasibility of expanding the Current Population Survey to produce estimates for Puerto Rico, which would provide data on the labor force, employment, and unemployment from a monthly household survey; and the feasibility of expanding the Consumer Price Index program to include data from Puerto Rico.