To amend title 5, United States Code, to allow whistleblowers to disclose information to certain recipients.

(Sec. 1) This bill modifies whistle-blower protections for federal employees or applicants who disclose classified national security information, or other protected information, that evidences wrongdoing.

Currently, it is unlawful to retaliate against a federal employee for disclosing classified or protected information of wrongdoing to one of the following recipients: (1) the Office of Inspector General of their agency, (2) the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, or (3) a designated agency employee. This bill expands the list of recipients to whom a federal employee may make a protected disclosure to include a supervisor in the employee's direct chain of command.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2196 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2196

   To amend title 5, United States Code, to allow whistleblowers to 
              disclose information to certain recipients.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 27, 2017

 Mr. Russell (for himself, Mr. Cummings, and Mr. Lynch) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
                           Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 5, United States Code, to allow whistleblowers to 
              disclose information to certain recipients.

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

SECTION 1. RECIPIENTS OF WHISTLEBLOWER DISCLOSURES.

    Section 2302(b)(8)(B) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by 
striking ``or to the Inspector'' and all that follows through ``such 
disclosures'' and inserting ``the Inspector General of an agency, a 
supervisor in the employee's direct chain of command up to and 
including the head of the employing agency, the Director of National 
Intelligence, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, or 
to an employee designated by any of the aforementioned individuals for 
the purpose of receiving such disclosures''.
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