[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 765 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 765

  To prohibit the use of DeepSeek by the executive agencies, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 27, 2025

 Ms. Rosen (for herself, Mr. Husted, and Mr. Ricketts) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
               Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the use of DeepSeek by the executive agencies, 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 DeepSeek on Government Devices 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF DEEPSEEK.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Covered application.--The term ``covered application'' 
        means the DeepSeek application or any successor application or 
        service developed or provided by High Flyer or an entity owned 
        by High Flyer.
            (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.
    (b) Prohibition on the Use of DeepSeek.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 60 days after the date of 
        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 that require 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 executive agencies 
                to develop and document risk mitigation actions for 
                such use.
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