[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
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[S. 1143 Reported in Senate (RS)]

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                                                       Calendar No. 642
117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1143

                          [Report No. 117-256]

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

                             April 15, 2021

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

                           December 14, 2022

               Reported by Mr. Peters, without amendment

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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 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. 642

117th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 1143

                          [Report No. 117-256]

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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.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           December 14, 2022

                       Reported without amendment