# 119-hr-6646: Empowering App-Based Workers Act

119-hr-6646, Empowering App-Based Workers Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7] (D-WA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-07).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-6646
- Congress: 119
- Title: Empowering App-Based Workers Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-12-11
- Sponsor: Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7] (D-WA)
- Cosponsors: 15
- Policy area: Labor and Employment
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-10-07

## Summary

**Transparency and accountability for app-based workers.** This bill would create rules forcing platforms to explain how electronic monitoring and automated decision systems affect pay, assignments, and access to work, and to limit exploitative platform fees. - App-based workers would get machine-readable notices about monitoring and automated decision systems, weekly itemized pay statements showing tips, take rates, time on task, and individual data. Platforms must retain worker data for four years, provide requested data within five business days, and may not sell worker data except to an authorized agent or when required by law. Workers would also gain whistleblower protections and the right to designate authorized agents. - Consumers would see per-assignment financial disclosures that include the platform take rate and itemized transaction details so riders and buyers know how much reaches the worker. - On-demand ride-hail services would face a 25 percent take-rate cap and limits on worker fees. The bill would bar discriminatory or manipulative algorithmic wage-setting and use of sensitive personal data in pay decisions, require quarterly reporting of aggregated and demographic data to the Secretary of Labor, and create civil penalties, private damages rights, and joint liability for providers and vendors.

## Cosponsors (15)

- Rep. Grijalva, Adelita S. [D-AZ-7] (D-AZ), 2026-05-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Casar, Greg [D-TX-35] (D-TX), 2026-10-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Norcross, Donald [D-NJ-1] (D-NJ), 2025-12-11T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Omar, Ilhan [D-MN-5] (D-MN), 2025-12-11T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Goldman, Craig A. [R-TX-12] (R-TX), 2025-12-11T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lee, Summer L. [D-PA-12] (D-PA), 2025-12-11T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. McIver, LaMonica [D-NJ-10] (D-NJ), 2025-12-11T00:00:00.000Z
- Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] (D-DC), 2025-12-11T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2] (D-WI), 2025-12-11T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-39] (D-CA), 2025-12-11T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12] (D-MI), 2025-12-11T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-28] (D-CA), 2025-12-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Goldman, Daniel S. [D-NY-10] (D-NY), 2026-01-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1] (D-OR), 2026-02-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Adams, Alma S. [D-NC-12] (D-NC), 2026-02-23T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Enforcement, lawsuits, and whistleblower rules: benefit, high. If enacted, workers, consumers, authorized agents, and labor groups could sue platforms for violations of the bill. Courts would award statutory minimum damages (for example, listed minima such as $20,000 for certain notice or reporting failures, $5,000 for some pay-statement errors, and $25,000 fo…
- Cap fees and show pay details: benefit, medium. If enacted, platforms that offer on-demand rides would be limited to taking no more than 25% of a consumer payment (tips not counted). You would get an itemized end-of-assignment receipt that shows fare (ex-tip), tip, worker pay (ex-tip), the assignment take rate, time, distance, and bonus ties. Pl…
- Protect worker data and pay fairness: benefit, medium. If enacted, platforms that use electronic monitoring or automated decision systems would have to give workers and applicants clear notices about monitoring and algorithm use. Platforms would keep monitoring and ADS data for four years and generally provide worker-requested preserved data within fiv…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-9877: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026
- 119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act
- 119-hr-3971: Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act
- 119-hr-2102: Major Richard Star Act
- 119-hr-2045: Medicare Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefit Act of 2025
- 119-hr-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act

## Sources
- [119-hr-6646 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6646)

## Related
- [119-hr-9877: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9877)
- [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973)
- [119-hr-3971: Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3971)
- [119-hr-2102: Major Richard Star Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2102)
- [119-hr-2045: Medicare Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefit Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2045)
- [119-hr-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-51)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6646 (as of 2026-10-07).