Search Results: keywords:"legal defense"

  • S. 1524 — To ensure that whistleblowers, including contractors, are protected from retaliation when a Federal employee orders a reprisal, and for other purposes.
    Status:Reported to Senate
    Words:5,312

    The bill, titled the “Expanding Whistleblower Protections for Contractors Act of 2024”, aims to strengthen protection for whistleblowers, including contractors, from retaliation by Federal employees. It makes changes to existing laws, ensuring that individuals who report gross mismanagement,...

    Simple Explanation

    The bill wants to make sure that if someone working with the government, like a helper or a worker, sees something wrong and tells on it, they won't get in trouble or punished. It says that nobody can make them feel scared for speaking up, and even special rules can't make them give up this protection.

  • H. R. 7137 — To provide for the vacating of certain convictions and expungement of certain arrests of victims of human trafficking.
    Status:Reported in House
    Words:3,951

    H.R. 7137, the "Trafficking Survivors Relief Act of 2024," aims to help human trafficking victims by allowing them to request the removal of certain convictions and arrests from federal records if those crimes were committed as a direct result of being trafficked. The bill outlines procedures...

    Simple Explanation

    H.R. 7137 wants to help people who got in trouble with the law because they were being forced to do bad things when others hurt them. It says they can ask the big bosses to erase those bad marks from their records, and it makes sure that the paperwork is secret and doesn't cost any money.