1. Short title This Act may be cited as the CFPB Whistleblower Incentives and Protection Act . 2. Bureau whistleblower incentives and protection (a) In general The Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 ( 12 U.S.C. 5481 et seq. ) is amended by inserting after section 1017 the following: 1017A. Whistleblower incentives and protection (a) Definitions In this section: (1) Administrative proceeding or court action The term administrative proceeding or court action means any judicial or administrative action brought by the Bureau that results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1,000,000. (2) Fund The term Fund means the Consumer Financial Civil Penalty Fund established under section 1017(d)(1). (3) Monetary sanctions The term monetary sanctions , when used with respect to any administrative proceeding or court action means any monies, including penalties, disgorgement, restitution, or interest, ordered to be paid or other amounts of relief obtained under section 1055(a)(2). (4) Original information The term original information means information that— (A) is derived from the independent knowledge or analysis of a whistleblower; (B) is not known to the Bureau from any other source, unless the whistleblower is the original source of the information; (C) is not exclusively derived from an allegation made in a judicial or administrative hearing, in a governmental report, hearing, or from the news media, unless the whistleblower is a source of the information