[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6896 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6896

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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 15, 2020

Mr. Buck (for himself, Mr. Correa, Mr. McCaul, Mr. Abraham, Mr. Banks, 
   Mr. Biggs, Mr. Budd, Ms. Cheney, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. 
    DesJarlais, Mr. Gaetz, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Harris, Mrs. 
 Hartzler, Mr. Norman, Mr. Perry, Mr. Reschenthaler, Mr. Rice of South 
 Carolina, Mr. Spano, Mr. Steube, Mr. Tipton, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. 
Wright, Mr. Yoho, Mr. Dunn, Mrs. Walorski, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, and 
 Mr. Stewart) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on 
House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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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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