(a) Short title.—This Act may be cited as the “Puerto Rico Data Collection Equality Act”.

(b) Table of contents.—The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

(a) Plan.—The head of the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy shall develop a plan to collect and publish statistics regarding the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in the same manner as statistics are collected and reported by Federal agencies for the several States.

(b) Implementation.—The head of the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy, in coordination with the heads of appropriate Federal agencies, shall implement the plan developed under subsection (a).

(c) Report.—Not later than two years after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every two years thereafter, the head of the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy shall submit to Congress a report which shall include—

(1) a description of the plan developed under subsection (a); and

(2) information on the implementation of such plan.

(a) In general.—The Director of the Bureau of the Census, in consultation with the heads of appropriate Federal agencies, shall include statistics regarding the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico collected and reported by the Bureau as part of the statistical programs described in subsection (b).

(b) Statistical programs described.—The statistical programs described in this subsection include the following:

(1) Census of Governments.

(2) Survey of Business Owners and Self-Employed Persons.

(3) Building Permits Survey.

(4) Quarterly Workforce Indicators.

(5) American Housing Survey.

(6) Construction Progress Reporting Survey.

(7) Housing Vacancy Survey.

(8) Manufactured Housing Survey.

(9) Value of Construction Put in Place Survey.

(10) Current Population Survey.

(c) National Economic Census.—The Director of the Bureau of the Census shall—

(1) collect and report statistics regarding the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for the Economic Census of Island Areas in a manner consistent, in terms of both substance and timing, with the collection and reporting of statistics for the National Economic Census; and

(2) not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, submit to Congress a report recommending whether statistics regarding the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico should be included in the National Economic Census rather than in the Economic Census of Island Areas.

(d) Population of territories.—With respect to any calculation or estimate of the total population of the United States conducted by the Bureau of the Census, including the decennial census of population under section 141 of title 13, United States Code, the Director of the Bureau of the Census shall include in any such calculation or estimate, and any report issued or published in connection with such calculation or estimate, the total population of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and any other territory or possession of the United States.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis shall include Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the United States Virgin Islands in its quarterly calculation of real gross domestic product by State and include such calculations in its estimates of the gross domestic product of the Nation as a whole.

The Secretary of Education, acting through the National Center for Education Statistics, shall, to the maximum extent practicable, collect and publish data for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in the same manner as data is collected and published for the several States.

(a) Surveys in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.—The Administrator of the National Agricultural Statistics Service shall—

(1) include, to the maximum extent practicable, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in the surveys conducted by the Service; and

(2) in the case of agricultural data collection that cannot be carried out under the surveys described in paragraph (1), identify an alternative method of collecting such data from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

(b) Report on feasibility of surveys in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.—Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the National Agricultural Statistics Service shall submit a report to Congress that includes recommendations on the feasibility of conducting surveys in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, and every 2 years thereafter, the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use shall submit to each committee of the Congress a report on the status of efforts to include the populations of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the other territories of the United States in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health for fiscal year 2022 and subsequent fiscal years.

Section 306 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 242k) is amended—

(1) by redesignating subsection (n) as subsection (o); and

(2) by inserting after subsection (m) the following:

“(n) In carrying out this section, the Secretary, acting through the Center, shall take all reasonable steps to collect, evaluate, and make available information with respect to the populations of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the other territories to the same extent as the Secretary collects, evaluates, and makes available information with respect to the populations of the several States.”.

Section 302(d) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10132(d)) is amended by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:

“(3) INCLUSION OF PUERTO RICO IN JUSTICE STATISTICS.—To the extent practicable, the Director shall gather information from Puerto Rico in carrying out the statistical collection, analysis, and dissemination functions of the Bureau.”.

The Secretary of Energy, acting through the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration, shall annually update the data and information included on the website of the Energy Information Administration in order to ensure, to the extent practicable, that the data and information included on the website with respect to Puerto Rico is as inclusive and complete as the data and information included on the website with respect to any State.

(a) Unemployment rate.—The Bureau of Labor Statistics shall calculate the unemployment rate of Puerto Rico and include such calculation when calculating and reporting the Nation’s unemployment rate.

(b) Inflation.—The Bureau of Labor Statistics shall calculate the rate of inflation in Puerto Rico and include such calculation when calculating and reporting the rate of inflation of the Nation.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York shall annually update the report titled “Report on the Competitiveness of Puerto Rico’s Economy” (published June 29, 2012).

The Secretary of Energy, acting through the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration, shall annually submit to Congress a report on the cost and unreliability of electric power in Puerto Rico and how such cost and unreliability affects the economic growth of Puerto Rico.