Legislation

On July 28, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Dick Durbin (D-IL), the Ranking Member and Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced the FBI Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act. The act strengthens whistleblower protections for employees at the Federal Bureau of...

On July 19, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to approve the bipartisan Peace Corps Reauthorization Act of 2022. The bill, which reauthorizes the Peace Corps for the first time in over 20 years, offers a number of reforms...

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) secured whistleblower protection provisions for members of the Intelligence Community in the 2023 Intelligence Authorization Act that passed the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 22. The press release states that the whistleblower protection provisions from the...

On June 23, members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations introduced the Peace Corps Reauthorization Act of 2022. The bipartisan bill would, among other things, improve whistleblower protections for Peace Corps Volunteers and employees. Senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ),...

On June 22, the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services will hold a markup session at 10am Eastern Time; one of the bills being marked up at the session is H.R. 7195, which offers amendments to the Anti-Money Laundering (AML)...

On May 31, Colorado governor Jared Polis (D) signed SB22-097 into law; the new law expands protections for health and safety whistleblowers. Colorado’s previous whistleblower protections offered protections to “workers who raise a reasonable concern about health or safety related...

The Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2021 (PRO Act), which passed the House of Representatives in March 2021, has been described as “the most significant labor law reform in the United States since the World War II-era Taft-Hartley...

On May 18, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill requiring whistleblower training for all employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The bipartisan VA Office of Inspector General Training Act of 2021 aims to counter a well-documented...

On December 13, the Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee unanimously passed legislation expanding whistleblower protections “to all judicial branch employees.” According to a press release from Representative Gerald Mullery (D-Luzerne County), H.B. 661 was approved unanimously by the Committee and now...

On December 9, Ohio State Representatives Jeffrey A. Crossman and Paula Hicks-Hudson announced the introduction of the Ohio False Claims Act. The law is modeled off the highly successful federal False Claims Act which incentivizes whistleblowers to report government contracting...