Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Passed Senate
Expanding Whistleblower Protections for Contractors Act of 2025
Official title: A bill to ensure that whistleblowers, including contractors, are protected from retaliation when a Federal employee orders a reprisal, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen. Gary Peters D-MIWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 5, 2025
- Committee actionJul 30, 2025
- Passed SenateApr 29, 2026 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 4, 2026 — Held at the desk.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 874.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 874, Expanding Whistleblower Protections for Contractors Act of 2025” on October 30, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on July 30, 2025”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 30, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61853
- CBO publication date
- October 30, 2025
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 874, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/874
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of September 19, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
1 cosponsor — 1 Republican
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Sen. Gary Peters.
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- S. 272 (119th) Protect Infant Formula from Contamination Act
- S. 861 (119th) Disaster Assistance Simplification Act
- S. 727 (119th) U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Retirement Technical Corrections Act
- S. 2542 (119th) Federal Building Threat Notification Act
- S. 434 (119th) Space Commerce Advisory Committee Act
Related bills
- H.R. 5578 (119th) Expanding Whistleblower Protections for Contractors Act of 2026Related bill
- S. 4631 (119th) Expanding Whistleblower Protections for Contractors Act of 2026Related bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 24, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.