Pipeline · Bill → Law
Step 1
Introduced
Jul 23, 2025
Step 2
Referred
Jul 23, 2025
Financial Services · Oversight · Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Step 3
Committee
Dec 17, 2025
Reported out
Step 4
House floor
Sep 15, 2026
Passed House
Step 5
Senate
Sep 16, 2026
Step 6
Resolve Changes
Step 7
Signed
SummaryCRS Summary
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...
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Roll Call Votes · 1
Timeline · 18 actions
Sep 16, 2026
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Sep 15, 2026
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
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)
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)
Sep 15, 2026
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5823-5824)
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.
Sep 14, 2026
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4646.
Sep 14, 2026
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5608-5609)
Sep 14, 2026
Ms. De La Cruz moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Sep 1, 2026
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 686.
Sep 1, 2026
Committee on Oversight and Gov Reform discharged.
Sep 1, 2026
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 119-786, Part I.
Dec 17, 2025
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Dec 17, 2025
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 51 - 0.
Dec 16, 2025
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Jul 23, 2025
Introduced in House
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.
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.