United States HR 2566: No TikTok on Government Devices Act

Bill Text

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117TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION H. R. 2566
To prohibit certain individuals from downloading or using TikTok on any
device issued by the United States or a government corporation.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL 15, 2021
Mr. BUCK (for himself, Mr. BIGGS, Mr. ROY, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. CRENSHAW,
Mr. RICE of South Carolina, Mr. PERRY, Mr. BISHOP of North Carolina,
and Mrs. MCCLAIN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to
the Committee on Oversight and Reform
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 Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No TikTok on Govern-4
ment Devices Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF TIKTOK. 6
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 7
(1) the term ‘‘covered application’’ means the 8
social networking service TikTok or any successor 9
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application or service developed or provided by 1
ByteDance Limited or an entity owned by 2
ByteDance Limited; 3
(2) the term ‘‘executive agency’’ has the mean-4
ing given that term in section 133 of title 41, United 5
States Code; and 6
(3) the term ‘‘information technology’’ has the 7
meaning given that term in section 11101 of title 8
40, United States Code. 9
(b) PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF TIKTOK.— 10
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after 11
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director 12
of the Office of Management and Budget, in con-13
sultation with the Administrator of General Services, 14
the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure 15
Security Agency, the Director of National Intel-16
ligence, and the Secretary of Defense, and consistent 17
with the information security requirements under 18
subchapter II of chapter 35 of title 44, United 19
States Code, shall develop standards and guidelines 20
for executive agencies requiring the removal of any 21
covered application from information technology. 22
(2) NATIONAL SECURITY AND RESEARCH EX-23
CEPTIONS.—The standards and guidelines developed 24
under paragraph (1) shall include— 25
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(A) exceptions for law enforcement activi-1
ties, national security interests and activities, 2
and security researchers; and 3
(B) for any authorized use of a covered ap-4
plication under an exception, requirements for 5
agencies to develop and document risk mitiga-6
tion actions for such use. 7
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