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2/3/2009--Introduced.Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009 - Amends federal personnel law relating to whistleblower protections to: (1) expand the concept of protected disclosure to include lawful disclosures without restriction to time, place, form, motive, context, forum, or prior disclosure, including a disclosure made in the ordinary course of an employee's duties; (2) define evidentiary standards applicable to whistleblower disclosures; (3) include as a prohibited personnel practice against whistleblowers the implementation of enforcement of any nondisclosure policy, form, or agreement, a suspension or revocation of a security clearance, and an investigation of a whistleblower; (4) permit whistleblowers to file appeals in any federal court of appeals of competent jurisdiction; (5) authorize the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to obtain review of a final order of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) interpreting whistleblower protections under specified circumstances; (6) grant authority to the MSPB to determine whether whistleblower security clearances were properly suspended or revoked; (7) make whistleblower protections applicable to employees of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and individuals who disclose censorship by federal agencies of research, analysis, or technical information that causes any violation of law or gross mismanagement, waste, abuse of authority or that poses a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety; and (8) require the Comptroller General to report to Congress on the implementation of this Act and on the revocation of whistleblower security clearances.

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