10 U.S.C. § 4701
Contractor employees: protection from reprisal for disclosure of certain information
United States · Title 10 — ARMED FORCES · Status: effective
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An employee of a contractor, subcontractor, grantee, or subgrantee or personal services contractor may not be discharged, demoted, or otherwise discriminated against as a reprisal for disclosing to a person or body described in paragraph (2) information that the employee reasonably believes is evidence of the following:
The persons and bodies described in this paragraph are the persons and bodies as follows:
For the purposes of paragraph (1)—
The Inspector General may not respond to any inquiry or disclose any information from or about any person alleging the reprisal, except to the extent that such response or disclosure is—
Not later than 30 days after receiving an Inspector General report pursuant to subsection (b), the head of the agency concerned shall determine whether there is sufficient basis to conclude that the contractor, subcontractor, grantee, subgrantee, or personal services contractor concerned has subjected the complainant to a reprisal prohibited by subsection (a) and shall either issue an order denying relief or shall take one or more of the following actions:
This section shall not apply to any disclosure made by an employee of a contractor, subcontractor, grantee, subgrantee, or personal services contractor of an element of the intelligence community if such disclosure—
In this section:
The term “abuse of authority” means the following:
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- A joint resolution making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1987, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Defense Technical Corrections Act of 1987House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991House: 396–4Senate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993House: 304–100Senate: no recorded tally
- Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994House: 425–0Senate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013
- Carl Levin and Howard P. "Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015
- A bill to enhance whistleblower protection for contractor and grantee employees.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
- James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023
- To make revisions in title 5, United States Code, as necessary to keep the title current, and to make technical amendments to improve the United States Code.House: 413–3Senate: no recorded tally
- Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025House: 281–140Senate: no recorded tally