119th (2025–2027)
H.Res. 1005
H.Res. 1005 is a non-binding resolution expressing the House's support for better treatment of creators and digital workers—including content creators, freelancers, and gig workers—who earn income through online platforms. The resolution acknowledges that over 10 million Americans work as independent contractors on platforms but often lack transparency about how algorithms affect their earnings, face income volatility, and cannot access traditional employee benefits like health care or retirement plans. The resolution calls for several reforms: portable benefits that workers can carry across platforms, clear revenue-sharing terms from platforms, the ability for creators to maintain direct relationships with their audiences, better small business support resources, clearer appeal processes for account suspensions, and transparency about how artificial intelligence affects creators' work. This is a statement of congressional intent rather than binding legislation, so it does not establish new law or allocate funding, but it signals House support for future policy discussions and potential regulation of platform-based work.