3.0.0 1745 2023-01-11T13:17:45Z 2023-01-11T13:17:45Z Senate S S 2009-10-01 111 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2009-10-01T20:36:33Z 2009-10-01 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. IntroReferral 2009-10-01 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M001170 Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO] Claire McCaskill D MO N W000803 Sen. Webb, Jim [D-VA] James Webb D VA H. "Jim" 2009-11-02 False Government Operations and Politics Civil actions and liability Employment discrimination and employee rights Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Government ethics and transparency, public corruption Government studies and investigations Judicial review and appeals Public contracts and procurement State and local government operations Government Operations and Politics 00 2009-10-01 Introduced in Senate 2010-04-26T19:33:53Z Non-Federal Employee Whistleblower Protection Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to repeal and replace provisions prohibiting reprisals against employees of government contractors for disclosing to a federal official information relating to a substantial violation of law related to a public contract.

Prohibits an employee of any non-federal employer receiving covered funds (i.e., a contract, grant, or other payment any portion of of which is provided by the federal government) from being discriminated against as a reprisal for initiating or participating in any proceeding related to the misuse of federal funds, reasonably opposing the misuse of federal funds, or disclosing to specified federal agencies or officials information that the employee reasonably believes is evidence of: (1) gross mismanagement of an agency contract or grant relating to covered funds; (2) a gross waste of covered funds; (3) a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety, or an abuse of authority, related to the implementation or use of covered funds; or (4) a violation of a law, rule, or regulation related to an agency contract, subcontract, or grant relating to covered funds.

Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) time limitations for agency inspector general determinations regarding whether to conduct or continue an investigation of a reprisal complaint; (2) the right of a complainant to pursue a civil remedy if an inspector general decides not to conduct or continue an investigation or an agency denies relief or fails to act with specified periods; (3) a complainant's access to the inspector general's investigative file; (4) the standard of proof for a reprisal; (5) agency actions to deny relief or to remedy a reprisal, including by requiring a compliance program to ensure that an employer commits no further retaliation or by requiring the employee to be paid ten times the amount of lost wages and other compensatory damages where the reprisal is found to have been willful, wanton, or malicious; and (6) non-enforceability of certain provisions waiving rights and remedies or requiring arbitration of disputes.

]]> Non-Federal Employee Whistleblower Protection Act of 2009 Display Title Non-Federal Employee Whistleblower Protection Act of 2009 Official Title as Introduced A bill to expand whistleblower protections to non-Federal employees whose disclosures involve misuse of Federal funds. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Non-Federal Employee Whistleblower Protection Act of 2009 Introduced in Senate 2009-10-01T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s1745is/xml/BILLS-111s1745is.xml 2009-10-01 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.