3.0.0 794 2023-01-11T13:27:50Z 2023-01-11T13:27:50Z Senate S 2015-03-18 114 slin00 Intelligence (Select) Committee Senate Select Referred to 2015-03-18T21:08:47Z 2015-03-18 slin00 Intelligence (Select) Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence. IntroReferral 2015-03-18 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M001170 Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO] Claire McCaskill D MO N Government Operations and Politics Congressional oversight Defense spending Employment discrimination and employee rights Evidence and witnesses Government ethics and transparency, public corruption Government studies and investigations Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information Military procurement, research, weapons development Public contracts and procurement Government Operations and Politics 00 2015-03-18 Introduced in Senate 2015-04-25T15:36:10Z Extends whistleblower protections to employees of contractors, subcontractors, or grantees of elements of the intelligence community who disclose information regarding such an element, or its activities, if the employee complies with procedures to report urgent concerns to Congress by first submitting the information to an appropriate agency Inspector General under the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 or the Inspector General Act of 1978. (Currently, employees of contractors of the intelligence community are excluded from certain whistleblower protections that are provided to employees of contractors of the Department of Defense and other federal agencies.)

Requires courts that receive a disclosure of information required by executive order to be kept classified (in the interests of national defense or the conduct of foreign affairs) to treat the information in a manner consistent with the interests of the national security of the United States, including through the use of summaries or ex parte submissions if the element of the intelligence community concerned advises the court that such procedures are warranted.

]]> A bill to extend whistleblower protections for defense contractor employees to employees of contractors of the elements of the intelligence community. Display Title A bill to extend whistleblower protections for defense contractor employees to employees of contractors of the elements of the intelligence community. Official Title as Introduced A bill to extend whistleblower protections for defense contractor employees to employees of contractors of the elements of the intelligence community. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s794is/xml/BILLS-114s794is.xml 2015-03-18 Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence. 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.