1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Portable Benefits for Independent Workers Pilot Program Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Many independent workers, constituting a growing percentage of the workforce in the United States, do not have access to benefits and protections typically provided through traditional full-time employment. (2) These independent workers are independent contractors, temporary workers, self-employed, or work pursuant to other contingent or alternative work arrangements. (3) According to a 2015 study by the Comptroller General of the United States, the size of the contingent workforce grew from 35 percent of employed workers in 2006 to 40 percent of employed workers in 2010. (4) According to a 2016 study by economists Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger, 94 percent of net employment growth in the United States economy from 2005 to 2015 occurred in alternative work arrangements. (5) As the population of independent workers grows, it is increasingly important that workers are provided portable benefits. 3. Definitions In this Act: (1) Eligible organization The term eligible organization means any State or local government or any nonprofit organization. (2) Eligible work The term eligible work means any work performed that is not in connection with traditional full-time employment. (3) Eligible worker The term eligible worker means any worker who is not a traditional full-time employee of the entity hiring the worker for the eligible work, including any independent contractor, contract worker, self-employed individual, freelance worker, temporary worker, or contingent worker. (4) Portable benefits The term portable benefits — (A) means work-related benefits that are provided to eligible workers for eligible work in a manner that allows the worker to maintain the benefits upon changing jobs