Whistleblower Protection Act of 2025

What this measure contains

Whistleblower Protection Act of 2025 This bill expands existing whistleblower protections for employees of federal contractors or grant recipients to apply to all contracts and grants funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) regardless of the date of execution. Current law protects employees of federal contractors or grant recipients from a reprisal (i.e., discharge, demotion, or discrimination) for disclosing evidence to Congress or another appropriate official of certain misconduct involving federal contracts, grants, or funds. This provision currently applies only to contracts and grants signed or modified after the law took effect in 2013. The bill expands these protections to apply to HUD contracts and grants signed before the law was enacted.

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• Referred in Senate · Official document ↗· Sep 16, 2026
• Engrossed in House · Official document ↗· Sep 15, 2026
• Reported in House · Official document ↗· Sep 1, 2026
• Introduced in House · Official document ↗· Jul 23, 2025

Legislative path

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1. Introduced in House
2. Reported in House
3. Engrossed in Houseby House suspend rules and pass
4. Referred in Senate

Decision stages

1. Sep 15, 2026 · House

   House suspend rules and pass on Reported in House: Passed, reported as Engrossed in House

   424 aye · 0 no · 9 not voting · Source roll call

House members along the path

Aye yea or aye · No nay or no · Present · NV not voting · Changed reversed on advancing the measure

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Legislative history

1. Jul 23, 2025

   Introduced in House

2. Jul 23, 2025

   Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

3. Dec 16, 2025

   Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

4. Dec 17, 2025

   Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

5. Dec 17, 2025

   Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 51 - 0.

6. Sep 1, 2026

   Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 119-786, Part I.

7. Sep 1, 2026

   Committee on Oversight and Gov Reform discharged.

8. Sep 1, 2026

   Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 686.

9. Sep 14, 2026

   Ms. De La Cruz moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

10. Sep 14, 2026

    Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5608-5609)

11. Sep 14, 2026

    DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4646.

12. Sep 14, 2026

    At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.

13. Sep 15, 2026

    Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5823-5824)

14. Sep 15, 2026

    Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 424 - 0 (Roll no. 303). (text: CR H5608)

15. Sep 15, 2026

    On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 424 - 0 (Roll no. 303). (text: CR H5608)

16. Sep 15, 2026

    Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

17. Sep 16, 2026

    Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

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