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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 874 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To ensure that whistleblowers, including contractors, are protected from |
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| 6 | 6 | | retaliation when a Federal employee orders a reprisal, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH5, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. P |
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| 10 | 10 | | ETERSintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred |
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| 11 | 11 | | to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To ensure that whistleblowers, including contractors, are pro- |
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| 14 | 14 | | tected from retaliation when a Federal employee orders |
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| 15 | 15 | | a reprisal, and for other purposes. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Expanding Whistle-4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | blower Protections for Contractors Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. DEFENSE CONTRACTOR EMPLOYEES: PROTECTION 6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | FROM REPRISAL FOR DISCLOSURE OF CER-7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | TAIN INFORMATION. 8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Section 4701 of title 10, United States Code, is 9 |
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| 25 | 25 | | amended— 10 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •S 874 IS |
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| 29 | 29 | | (1) in subsection (a)— 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (A) in paragraph (1)— 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (i) in the matter preceding subpara-3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | graph (A)— 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (I) by striking ‘‘An employee’’ 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | and all that follows through ‘‘services 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | contractor’’ and inserting ‘‘A pro-7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | tected individual’’; and 8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (II) by striking ‘‘disclosing’’ and 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | all that follows through ‘‘evidence of’’; 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | and 11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (ii) by striking subparagraphs (A), 12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (B), and (C) and inserting the following 13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | subparagraphs: 14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ‘‘(A) Refusing to obey an order that would re-15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | quire the protected individual to violate a law, rule, 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | or regulation related to any contract, subcontract, 17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | grant, or subgrant. 18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ‘‘(B) Disclosing to a person or body described 19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | in paragraph (2) information that the protected indi-20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | vidual reasonably believes is evidence of the fol-21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | lowing: 22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | ‘‘(i) Gross mismanagement of any Depart-23 |
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| 52 | 52 | | ment of Defense contract or grant, any gross 24 |
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| 53 | 53 | | waste of Department funds, any abuse of au-25 |
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| 56 | 56 | | •S 874 IS |
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| 57 | 57 | | thority relating to any Department contract, 1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | subcontract, grant, or subgrant, or any viola-2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | tion of law, rule, or regulation related to any 3 |
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| 60 | 60 | | Department contract or subcontract (including 4 |
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| 61 | 61 | | the competition for or negotiation of a contract 5 |
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| 62 | 62 | | or subcontract) or grant or subgrant. 6 |
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| 63 | 63 | | ‘‘(ii) Gross mismanagement of any Na-7 |
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| 64 | 64 | | tional Aeronautics and Space Administration 8 |
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| 65 | 65 | | contract or grant, any gross waste of Adminis-9 |
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| 66 | 66 | | tration funds, any abuse of authority relating to 10 |
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| 67 | 67 | | an Administration contract, subcontract, grant, 11 |
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| 68 | 68 | | or subgrant, or any violation of law, rule, or 12 |
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| 69 | 69 | | regulation related to any Administration con-13 |
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| 70 | 70 | | tract or subcontract (including the competition 14 |
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| 71 | 71 | | for or negotiation of a contract or subcontract) 15 |
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| 72 | 72 | | or grant or subgrant. 16 |
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| 73 | 73 | | ‘‘(iii) A substantial and specific danger to 17 |
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| 74 | 74 | | public health or safety.’’; and 18 |
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| 75 | 75 | | (B) in paragraph (3)— 19 |
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| 76 | 76 | | (i) in subparagraph (A), by striking 20 |
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| 77 | 77 | | ‘‘an employee’’ and inserting ‘‘a protected 21 |
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| 78 | 78 | | individual’’; and 22 |
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| 79 | 79 | | (ii) by striking subparagraph (B) and 23 |
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| 80 | 80 | | inserting the following subparagraph: 24 |
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| 83 | 83 | | •S 874 IS |
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| 84 | 84 | | ‘‘(B) it shall not be within the authority of an 1 |
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| 85 | 85 | | executive branch official to request that a con-2 |
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| 86 | 86 | | tractor, subcontractor, grantee, or subgrantee en-3 |
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| 87 | 87 | | gage in a reprisal prohibited by paragraph (1).’’; 4 |
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| 88 | 88 | | (2) in subsection (c)— 5 |
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| 89 | 89 | | (A) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end 6 |
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| 90 | 90 | | the following subparagraph: 7 |
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| 91 | 91 | | ‘‘(E) Propose appropriate disciplinary action 8 |
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| 92 | 92 | | against any executive branch official for any request 9 |
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| 93 | 93 | | made of a contractor, subcontractor, grantee, or sub-10 |
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| 94 | 94 | | grantee that subjected the complainant to a reprisal 11 |
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| 95 | 95 | | prohibited by subsection (a).’’; and 12 |
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| 96 | 96 | | (B) by striking paragraph (7) and insert-13 |
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| 97 | 97 | | ing the following paragraph: 14 |
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| 98 | 98 | | ‘‘(7) C |
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| 99 | 99 | | LARIFICATION FOR SCOPE OFWAIVERRE-15 |
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| 100 | 100 | | STRICTIONS.—(A) The rights, forum, and remedies pro-16 |
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| 101 | 101 | | vided for in this section may not be waived by any public 17 |
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| 102 | 102 | | or private agreement, policy, form, or condition of employ-18 |
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| 103 | 103 | | ment, including by any predispute arbitration agreement. 19 |
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| 104 | 104 | | ‘‘(B) No provision of the predispute arbitration 20 |
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| 105 | 105 | | agreement shall be valid or enforceable if it requires arbi-21 |
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| 106 | 106 | | tration of a dispute arising under this section.’’; 22 |
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| 107 | 107 | | (3) by striking subsection (e) and redesignating 23 |
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| 108 | 108 | | subsections (f) and (g) as subsections (e) and (f), re-24 |
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| 109 | 109 | | spectively; 25 |
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| 112 | 112 | | •S 874 IS |
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| 113 | 113 | | (4) in subsection (e), as so redesignated— 1 |
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| 114 | 114 | | (A) by striking ‘‘an employee’’ and insert-2 |
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| 115 | 115 | | ing ‘‘a protected individual’’; and 3 |
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| 116 | 116 | | (B) by striking ‘‘the employee’’ and insert-4 |
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| 117 | 117 | | ing ‘‘the protected individual’’; and 5 |
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| 118 | 118 | | (5) in subsection (f), as so redesignated, by 6 |
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| 119 | 119 | | adding at the end the following new paragraph: 7 |
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| 120 | 120 | | ‘‘(8) The term ‘protected individual’ means— 8 |
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| 121 | 121 | | ‘‘(A) a contractor, subcontractor, grantee, 9 |
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| 122 | 122 | | or subgrantee of the Department of Defense or 10 |
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| 123 | 123 | | the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis-11 |
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| 124 | 124 | | tration, including— 12 |
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| 125 | 125 | | ‘‘(i) the government of each of the 13 |
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| 126 | 126 | | several States, the District of Columbia, an 14 |
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| 127 | 127 | | Indian tribe or authorized tribal organiza-15 |
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| 128 | 128 | | tion, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 16 |
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| 129 | 129 | | Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Is-17 |
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| 130 | 130 | | lands, the Commonwealth of the Northern 18 |
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| 131 | 131 | | Mariana Islands, or any other territory or 19 |
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| 132 | 132 | | possession of the United States; 20 |
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| 133 | 133 | | ‘‘(ii) the government of any political 21 |
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| 134 | 134 | | subdivision of, agency of, or instrumen-22 |
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| 135 | 135 | | tality of, a government listed in clause (i); 23 |
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| 136 | 136 | | and 24 |
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| 139 | 139 | | •S 874 IS |
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| 140 | 140 | | ‘‘(iii) an element of the intelligence 1 |
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| 141 | 141 | | community (as defined in section 3 of the 2 |
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| 142 | 142 | | National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3 |
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| 143 | 143 | | 3003)) within the Department of Defense; 4 |
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| 144 | 144 | | ‘‘(B) an employee of a contractor, subcon-5 |
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| 145 | 145 | | tractor, grantee, or subgrantee of the Depart-6 |
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| 146 | 146 | | ment of Defense or the National Aeronautics 7 |
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| 147 | 147 | | and Space Administration, or a former em-8 |
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| 148 | 148 | | ployee of such contractor, subcontractor, grant-9 |
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| 149 | 149 | | ee, or subgrantee whose protected disclosure or 10 |
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| 150 | 150 | | engagement in any activity protected against 11 |
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| 151 | 151 | | reprisal under this section occurred prior to ter-12 |
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| 152 | 152 | | mination, including an employee of— 13 |
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| 153 | 153 | | ‘‘(i) the government of each of the 14 |
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| 154 | 154 | | several States, the District of Columbia, an 15 |
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| 155 | 155 | | Indian tribe or authorized tribal organiza-16 |
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| 156 | 156 | | tion, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 17 |
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| 157 | 157 | | Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Is-18 |
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| 158 | 158 | | lands, the Commonwealth of the Northern 19 |
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| 159 | 159 | | Mariana Islands, or any other territory or 20 |
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| 160 | 160 | | possession of the United States; 21 |
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| 161 | 161 | | ‘‘(ii) the government of any political 22 |
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| 162 | 162 | | subdivision of, agency of, or instrumen-23 |
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| 163 | 163 | | tality of, a government listed in clause (i); 24 |
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| 164 | 164 | | and 25 |
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| 167 | 167 | | •S 874 IS |
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| 168 | 168 | | ‘‘(iii) an element of the intelligence 1 |
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| 169 | 169 | | community (as defined in section 3 of the 2 |
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| 170 | 170 | | National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3 |
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| 171 | 171 | | 3003)) within the Department of Defense; 4 |
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| 172 | 172 | | or 5 |
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| 173 | 173 | | ‘‘(C) a person performing personal services 6 |
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| 174 | 174 | | for the Department of Defense or the National 7 |
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| 175 | 175 | | Aeronautics and Space Administration pursuant 8 |
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| 176 | 176 | | to a contractual agreement for the performance 9 |
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| 177 | 177 | | of personal services, including a personal serv-10 |
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| 178 | 178 | | ices contract or personal services agreement, 11 |
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| 179 | 179 | | and who engages in an activity for which any 12 |
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| 180 | 180 | | reprisal is prohibited under subsection (a), in-13 |
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| 181 | 181 | | cluding a person performing personal services 14 |
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| 182 | 182 | | pursuant such a contractual agreement for— 15 |
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| 183 | 183 | | ‘‘(i) the government of each of the 16 |
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| 184 | 184 | | several States, the District of Columbia, an 17 |
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| 185 | 185 | | Indian tribe or authorized tribal organiza-18 |
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| 186 | 186 | | tion, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 19 |
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| 187 | 187 | | Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Is-20 |
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| 188 | 188 | | lands, the Commonwealth of the Northern 21 |
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| 189 | 189 | | Mariana Islands, or any other territory or 22 |
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| 190 | 190 | | possession of the United States; 23 |
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| 191 | 191 | | ‘‘(ii) the government of any political 24 |
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| 192 | 192 | | subdivision of, agency of, or instrumen-25 |
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| 195 | 195 | | •S 874 IS |
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| 196 | 196 | | tality of, a government listed in clause (i); 1 |
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| 197 | 197 | | and 2 |
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| 198 | 198 | | ‘‘(iii) an element of the intelligence 3 |
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| 199 | 199 | | community (as defined in section 3 of the 4 |
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| 200 | 200 | | National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 5 |
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| 201 | 201 | | 3003)) within the Department of De-6 |
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| 202 | 202 | | fense.’’. 7 |
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| 203 | 203 | | SEC. 3. ENHANCEMENT OF NON-DEFENSE CONTRACTOR 8 |
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| 204 | 204 | | PROTECTION FROM REPRISAL FOR DISCLO-9 |
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| 205 | 205 | | SURE OF CERTAIN INFORMATION. 10 |
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| 206 | 206 | | Section 4712 of title 41, United States Code, is 11 |
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| 207 | 207 | | amended— 12 |
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| 208 | 208 | | (1) in subsection (a)— 13 |
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| 209 | 209 | | (A) by striking paragraph (1) and insert-14 |
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| 210 | 210 | | ing the following paragraph: 15 |
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| 211 | 211 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 212 | 212 | | N GENERAL.—A protected individual may 16 |
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| 213 | 213 | | not be discharged, demoted, or otherwise discrimi-17 |
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| 214 | 214 | | nated against as a reprisal for the following: 18 |
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| 215 | 215 | | ‘‘(A) Refusing to obey an order that would 19 |
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| 216 | 216 | | require the protected individual to violate a law, 20 |
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| 217 | 217 | | rule, or regulation related to any contract, sub-21 |
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| 218 | 218 | | contract, grant, or subgrant. 22 |
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| 219 | 219 | | ‘‘(B) Disclosing to a person or body de-23 |
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| 220 | 220 | | scribed in paragraph (2) information that the 24 |
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| 223 | 223 | | •S 874 IS |
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| 224 | 224 | | protected individual reasonably believes is evi-1 |
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| 225 | 225 | | dence of the following: 2 |
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| 226 | 226 | | ‘‘(i) Gross mismanagement of any 3 |
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| 227 | 227 | | Federal contract or grant, any gross waste 4 |
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| 228 | 228 | | of Federal funds, any abuse of authority 5 |
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| 229 | 229 | | relating to any Federal contract, sub-6 |
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| 230 | 230 | | contract, grant, or subgrant, or any viola-7 |
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| 231 | 231 | | tion of law, rule, or regulation related to 8 |
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| 232 | 232 | | any Federal contract or subcontract (in-9 |
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| 233 | 233 | | cluding the competition for or negotiation 10 |
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| 234 | 234 | | of a contract or subcontract) or grant or 11 |
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| 235 | 235 | | subgrant. 12 |
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| 236 | 236 | | ‘‘(ii) A substantial and specific danger 13 |
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| 237 | 237 | | to public health or safety.’’; and 14 |
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| 238 | 238 | | (B) in paragraph (3)— 15 |
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| 239 | 239 | | (i) in subparagraph (A), by striking 16 |
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| 240 | 240 | | ‘‘an employee’’ and inserting ‘‘a protected 17 |
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| 241 | 241 | | individual’’; and 18 |
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| 242 | 242 | | (ii) by striking subparagraph (B) and 19 |
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| 243 | 243 | | inserting the following subparagraph: 20 |
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| 244 | 244 | | ‘‘(B) it shall not be within the authority of 21 |
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| 245 | 245 | | an executive branch official to request that a 22 |
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| 246 | 246 | | contractor, subcontractor, grantee, or sub-23 |
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| 247 | 247 | | grantee engage in a reprisal prohibited by para-24 |
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| 248 | 248 | | graph (1).’’; 25 |
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| 251 | 251 | | •S 874 IS |
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| 252 | 252 | | (2) in subsection (c)— 1 |
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| 253 | 253 | | (A) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end 2 |
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| 254 | 254 | | the following new subparagraph: 3 |
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| 255 | 255 | | ‘‘(E) Propose appropriate disciplinary ac-4 |
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| 256 | 256 | | tion against any executive branch official for 5 |
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| 257 | 257 | | any request made of a contractor, subcon-6 |
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| 258 | 258 | | tractor, grantee, or subgrantee that subjected 7 |
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| 259 | 259 | | the complainant to a reprisal prohibited by sub-8 |
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| 260 | 260 | | section (a).’’; and 9 |
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| 261 | 261 | | (B) by striking paragraph (7) and insert-10 |
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| 262 | 262 | | ing the following paragraph: 11 |
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| 263 | 263 | | ‘‘(7) R |
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| 264 | 264 | | IGHTS, FORUM, AND REMEDIES NOT 12 |
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| 265 | 265 | | WAIVABLE.— 13 |
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| 266 | 266 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 267 | 267 | | N GENERAL.—The rights, forum, 14 |
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| 268 | 268 | | and remedies provided for in this section may 15 |
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| 269 | 269 | | not be waived by any public or private agree-16 |
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| 270 | 270 | | ment, policy, form, or condition of employment, 17 |
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| 271 | 271 | | including by any predispute arbitration agree-18 |
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| 272 | 272 | | ment. 19 |
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| 273 | 273 | | ‘‘(B) V |
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| 274 | 274 | | ALIDITY.—No provision of the 20 |
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| 275 | 275 | | predispute arbitration agreement shall be valid 21 |
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| 276 | 276 | | or enforceable if it requires arbitration of a dis-22 |
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| 277 | 277 | | pute arising under this section.’’; 23 |
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| 278 | 278 | | (3) in subsection (e)— 24 |
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| 281 | 281 | | •S 874 IS |
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| 282 | 282 | | (A) by striking ‘‘an employee’’ and insert-1 |
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| 283 | 283 | | ing ‘‘a protected individual’’; and 2 |
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| 284 | 284 | | (B) by striking ‘‘the employee’’ and insert-3 |
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| 285 | 285 | | ing ‘‘the protected individual’’; 4 |
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| 286 | 286 | | (4) by striking subsection (f) and redesignating 5 |
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| 287 | 287 | | subsections (g) and (h) as subsections (f) and (g), 6 |
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| 288 | 288 | | respectively; and 7 |
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| 289 | 289 | | (5) in subsection (f), as so redesignated, by in-8 |
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| 290 | 290 | | serting after paragraph (2) the following new para-9 |
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| 291 | 291 | | graph: 10 |
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| 292 | 292 | | ‘‘(3) The term ‘protected individual’ means— 11 |
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| 293 | 293 | | ‘‘(A) a contractor, subcontractor, grantee, 12 |
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| 294 | 294 | | or subgrantee of the Federal Government, in-13 |
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| 295 | 295 | | cluding— 14 |
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| 296 | 296 | | ‘‘(i) the government of each of the 15 |
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| 297 | 297 | | several States, the District of Columbia, an 16 |
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| 298 | 298 | | Indian tribe or authorized tribal organiza-17 |
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| 299 | 299 | | tion, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 18 |
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| 300 | 300 | | Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Is-19 |
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| 301 | 301 | | lands, the Commonwealth of the Northern 20 |
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| 302 | 302 | | Mariana Islands, or any other territory or 21 |
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| 303 | 303 | | possession of the United States; 22 |
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| 304 | 304 | | ‘‘(ii) the government of any political 23 |
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| 305 | 305 | | subdivision of, agency of, or instrumen-24 |
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| 308 | 308 | | •S 874 IS |
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| 309 | 309 | | tality of, a government listed in clause (i); 1 |
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| 310 | 310 | | and 2 |
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| 311 | 311 | | ‘‘(iii) an element of the intelligence 3 |
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| 312 | 312 | | community (as defined in section 3 of the 4 |
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| 313 | 313 | | National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 5 |
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| 314 | 314 | | 3003)); 6 |
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| 315 | 315 | | ‘‘(B) an employee of a contractor, subcon-7 |
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| 316 | 316 | | tractor, grantee, or subgrantee of the Federal 8 |
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| 317 | 317 | | Government or a former employee of such con-9 |
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| 318 | 318 | | tractor, subcontractor, grantee, or subgrantee 10 |
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| 319 | 319 | | whose protected disclosure or engagement in 11 |
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| 320 | 320 | | any activity protected against reprisal under 12 |
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| 321 | 321 | | this section occurred prior to termination, in-13 |
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| 322 | 322 | | cluding an employee of— 14 |
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| 323 | 323 | | ‘‘(i) the government of each of the 15 |
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| 324 | 324 | | several States, the District of Columbia, an 16 |
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| 325 | 325 | | Indian tribe or authorized tribal organiza-17 |
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| 326 | 326 | | tion, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 18 |
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| 327 | 327 | | Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Is-19 |
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| 328 | 328 | | lands, the Commonwealth of the Northern 20 |
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| 329 | 329 | | Mariana Islands, or any other territory or 21 |
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| 330 | 330 | | possession of the United States; 22 |
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| 331 | 331 | | ‘‘(ii) the government of any political 23 |
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| 332 | 332 | | subdivision of, agency of, or instrumen-24 |
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| 339 | 339 | | community (as defined in section 3 of the 4 |
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| 340 | 340 | | National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 5 |
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| 341 | 341 | | 3003)); or 6 |
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| 342 | 342 | | ‘‘(C) a person performing personal services 7 |
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| 348 | 348 | | to such a contractual agreement for— 13 |
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| 349 | 349 | | ‘‘(i) the government of each of the 14 |
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| 350 | 350 | | several States, the District of Columbia, an 15 |
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| 351 | 351 | | Indian tribe or authorized tribal organiza-16 |
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| 352 | 352 | | tion, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 17 |
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| 353 | 353 | | Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Is-18 |
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| 355 | 355 | | Mariana Islands, or any other territory or 20 |
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| 365 | 365 | | community (as defined in section 3 of the 2 |
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