Sec. 6. Employee protections against retaliation
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Title VI of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act ( 25 U.S.C. 1661 et seq. ) (as amended by section 5(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following: An employee of the Service who witnesses retaliation against a whistleblower, a violation of patient safety requirements, or other similar conduct shall make a report of the conduct to an official in the Department who— is designated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to receive those reports; and is not an employee of the Service. The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall provide a copy of each report described in paragraph
(1)and any other relevant information to the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services by not later than 3 days after receipt of the report by the designated official described in that paragraph. The Secretary may remove for misconduct from the civil service (as defined in section 2101 of title 5, United States Code), in accordance with section 605, an employee of the Service who retaliates against a whistleblower. The Secretary shall formally review each claim of— discrimination against an employee of the Service; or retaliation against a whistleblower in the Service. The Secretary shall submit to Congress each year a report describing the status or disposition of each claim described in paragraph (1). . Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to Congress a report examining protections for whistleblowers in the Indian Health Service (referred to in this subsection as the Service ). The report described in paragraph
(1)shall include— a follow-up investigation on the investigation of the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate entitled In Critical Condition: The Urgent Need to Reform the Indian Health Service's Aberdeen Area ; a discussion and conclusion on whether the Service has taken proper steps to ensure that whistleblowers are not retaliated against; recommendations for changes in Service policy relating to whistleblowers; and a discussion and conclusion on whether the official email accounts of employees of the Service are being monitored.
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