[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3455 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3455

To prohibit certain individuals from downloading or using TikTok on any 
    device issued by the United States or a government corporation.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 12, 2020

    Mr. Hawley (for himself, Mr. Scott of Florida, and Mr. Cotton) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
        Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit certain individuals from downloading or using TikTok on any 
    device issued by the United States or a government corporation.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``No TikTok on Government Devices 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON DOWNLOADING OR USING TIKTOK BY FEDERAL 
              EMPLOYEES.

    (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), no employee 
of the United States, officer of the United States, Member of Congress, 
congressional employee, or officer or employee of a government 
corporation may download or use TikTok or any successor application 
developed by ByteDance or any entity owned by ByteDance on any device 
issued by the United States or a government corporation.
    (b) Exception.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to any 
investigation, cybersecurity research activity, enforcement action, 
disciplinary action, or intelligence activity.
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