[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
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[S. 3455 Reported in Senate (RS)]

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                                                       Calendar No. 507
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, Mr. Cotton, Ms. Ernst, 
Mr. Kennedy, and Ms. McSally) introduced the following bill; which was 
   read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
                          Governmental Affairs

                             August 6, 2020

               Reported by Mr. Johnson, with an amendment
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

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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,

<DELETED>SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    This Act may be cited as the ``No TikTok on Government 
Devices Act''.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON DOWNLOADING OR USING TIKTOK BY FEDERAL 
              EMPLOYEES.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    (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.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Exception.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to any 
investigation, cybersecurity research activity, enforcement action, 
disciplinary action, or intelligence activity.</DELETED>

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

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

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF TIKTOK.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``covered application'' means the social 
        networking service TikTok or any successor application or 
        service developed or provided by ByteDance Limited or an entity 
        owned by ByteDance Limited;
            (2) the term ``executive agency'' has the meaning given 
        that term in section 133 of title 41, United States Code; and
            (3) the term ``information technology'' has the meaning 
        given that term in section 11101 of title 40, United States 
        Code.
    (b) Prohibition on the Use of TikTok.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 60 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of 
        Management and Budget, in consultation with the Administrator 
        of General Services, the Director of the Cybersecurity and 
        Infrastructure Security Agency, the Director of National 
        Intelligence, and the Secretary of Defense, and consistent with 
        the information security requirements under subchapter II of 
        chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code, shall develop 
        standards and guidelines for executive agencies requiring the 
        removal of any covered application from information technology.
            (2) National security and research exceptions.--The 
        standards and guidelines developed under paragraph (1) shall 
        include--
                    (A) exceptions for law enforcement activities, 
                national security interests and activities, and 
                security researchers; and
                    (B) for any authorized use of a covered application 
                under an exception, requirements for agencies to 
                develop and document risk mitigation actions for such 
                use.
                                                       Calendar No. 507

116th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 3455

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

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

_______________________________________________________________________

                             August 6, 2020

                       Reported with an amendment