[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4453 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4453

    To prohibit Government phones from using any financial service 
 application owned or operated, directly or indirectly, by the Chinese 
  Communist Party or any member of such Party, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 30, 2023

    Mr. Torres of New York introduced the following bill; which was 
       referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability

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                                 A BILL


 
    To prohibit Government phones from using any financial service 
 application owned or operated, directly or indirectly, by the Chinese 
  Communist Party or any member of such Party, and for other purposes.

    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 CCP Financial Apps on Government 
Devices Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF CERTAIN FINANCIAL SERVICE 
              APPLICATIONS ON GOVERNMENT PHONES.

    (a) Prohibition.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 180 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) Exceptions.--The standards and guidelines developed 
        under paragraph (1) shall include the following:
                    (A) Exceptions for law enforcement activities, 
                national security interests and activities, and 
                security researchers.
                    (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.
                    (C) An exception that allows financial regulators 
                to test the covered application for compliance or other 
                purposes in accordance with any requirement from the 
                national security agencies, including the Department of 
                Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the 
                Central Intelligence Agency, that ensures the covered 
                application is not able to access information from the 
                financial regulator.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Covered application.--
                    (A) In general.--The term ``covered application'' 
                means any financial service application domiciled in a 
                jurisdiction controlled by the Chinese Communist Party 
                or controlled by an entity domiciled in a jurisdiction 
                controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
                    (B) Controlled defined.--In this paragraph, 
                ``controlled'' means any entity with at least a 10 
                percent voting interest.
            (2) Executive agency.--The term ``executive agency'' has 
        the meaning given that term in section 133 of title 41, United 
        States Code.
            (3) Information technology.--The term ``information 
        technology'' has the meaning given that term in section 11101 
        of title 40, United States Code.
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