[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2968 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2968

To amend the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 to clarify whistleblower 
            rights and protections, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 24, 2018

Mr. Durbin (for Ms. Duckworth) introduced the following bill; which was 
    read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 to clarify whistleblower 
            rights and protections, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Department of Energy and Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission Whistleblower Protection Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF PERSON.

    Section 211(a)(2) of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (42 
U.S.C. 5851(a)(2)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) through (G) as 
        clauses (i) through (vii), respectively, and indenting the 
        clauses appropriately;
            (2) in the matter preceding clause (i) (as so 
        redesignated), by striking the paragraph designation and all 
        that follows through ``includes--'' and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(2) Definitions.--In this section:
                    ``(A) Employer.--The term `employer' includes--''; 
                and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) Person.--The term `person' includes--
                            ``(i) a person (as defined in section 11 of 
                        the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 
                        2014));
                            ``(ii) the Commission; and
                            ``(iii) the Department of Energy.''.
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