Here’s the bill:

The Good

• No summary judgment for MSPB, at least for now. The GAO is supposed to study the issue and make recommendations.
• The Federal Circuit will not exercise exclusive jurisdiction, at least for two years as an experiment.
• No change to agencies’ burden of proof.

The Bad

• No district court trials. This too will be studied by the GAO.
• No explicit retroactivity language to provide justice for whistleblower victims of the Bush and Obama Administrations.
• No SSI/CUI agency designation remedy.
• No remedy for expansion of Dep’t of Navy v. Egan to cover non-classified, sensitive positions.
• No new protections to uniformed officers in the health and environmental fields.
• No new protections to national security whistleblowers.
• No remedy for retaliatory revocation of security clearances.