Providing the payment of awards to whistleblowers who report violations of state or federal securities laws and providing protection to whistleblowers and internal reporters.

Where it goes next

Once a bill is decided, the questions are about what is done with it in Washington.

• What an agency writes to carry it outAn agency's name on a lobbying report is not a rulemaking.
• Which court can stay or strike itAn opinion listed here is not yet tied to the law it reviewed.
• How the place it governs is doingBecoming law is not the result. A number moving is not proof the law moved it.