# 114-hr-3500: Honesty in Consumer Price Index Reporting Act

114-hr-3500, Honesty in Consumer Price Index Reporting Act, is a 114th Congress bill sponsored by WALTER JONES (R-NC); status Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 114-hr-3500
- Congress: 114
- Title: Honesty in Consumer Price Index Reporting Act
- Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
- Introduced: 2015-09-11
- Sponsor: WALTER JONES (R-NC)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Labor and Employment
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Honesty in Consumer Price Index Reporting Act This bill directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor to report regularly and routinely an additional data set designed to replicate the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (or CPI-W set) reflecting a fixed market basket of goods and services, omitting consideration of substitution of goods and services due to changes in individual consumption patterns caused by price increases, utilizing the methodology that was employed by the Bureau in 1980.

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## Sources
- [114-hr-3500 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/3500)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-3500 (as of 2025-11-18).