Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Notable · Needs Congress

Amend Title VII to bar EEOC collection of EEO-1 racial data

Not started

583 18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies

“Amend Title VII. The next Administration should work with Congress to amend Title VII to prohibit the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from collecting EEO-1 data and any other racial classifications in employment for both private and public workplaces.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    No bill to amend Title VII to bar the EEOC from collecting EEO-1 or other racial classification data has been introduced in the 119th Congress. The administration is pursuing the same object by rulemaking instead (EEOC proposed rule, 2026-07-23, #1594), which leaves the statute untouched — Title VII section 709(c) still authorizes the Commission to require these records.

    No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

  • Negative search, this item’s own: bills.ndjson (18,476 bills of the 119th Congress) returns no title matching EEO-1, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or Title VII coupled with data collection. Read alongside: chapter log, Cluster negative search — EEOC internal-practice asks (#1609, #1610, #1611, #1612), which covers the Commission’s entire Federal Register output for the window (20 documents) and its sitemap; it is read-alongside and not covering, because this is a legislative ask and that cluster searches the Commission’s own instruments. (Reference corrected 2026-09-01, ticket 26 phase 2: this item cited “the Cluster negative search for the EEOC statutory asks”, a heading that does not exist — the log’s heading is “EEOC internal-practice asks” — and the chapter log’s own entry for this item cited that cluster’s “bills half”, which the cluster does not have. The bills search is here, where it was run.)
  • The executive branch route being taken instead is #1594. Under §3b, progress on an adjacent instrument is not progress on this ask: a rescinded regulation can be re-issued by a later Commission, which is the difference the Quote is asking Congress to remove.
Action
restrict
Object
Title VII (EEOC racial data collection)
ID
1595