IIB 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7521 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MARCH 14, 2024 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation 
AN ACT 
To protect the national security of the United States from 
the threat posed by foreign adversary controlled applica-
tions, such as TikTok and any successor application or 
service and any other application or service developed 
or provided by ByteDance Ltd. or an entity under the 
control of ByteDance Ltd. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting Americans 
from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF FOREIGN ADVERSARY CON-
TROLLED APPLICATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.— 
(1) PROHIBITION OF FOREIGN ADVERSARY CON-
TROLLED APPLICATIONS.—It shall be unlawful for 
an entity to distribute, maintain, or update (or en-
able the distribution, maintenance, or updating of) a 
foreign adversary controlled application by carrying 
out, within the land or maritime borders of the 
United States, any of the following: 
(A) Providing services to distribute, main-
tain, or update such foreign adversary con-
trolled application (including any source code of 
such application) by means of a marketplace 
(including an online mobile application store) 
through which users within the land or mari-
time borders of the United States may access, 
maintain, or update such application. 
(B) Providing internet hosting services to 
enable the distribution, maintenance, or updat-
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ing of such foreign adversary controlled applica-
tion for users within the land or maritime bor-
ders of the United States. 
(2) 
APPLICABILITY.—Subsection 
(a) 
shall 
apply— 
(A) in the case of an application that satis-
fies the definition of a foreign adversary con-
trolled application pursuant to subsection 
(g)(3)(A), beginning on the date that is 180 
days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act; and 
(B) in the case of an application that satis-
fies the definition of a foreign adversary con-
trolled application pursuant to subsection 
(g)(3)(B), beginning on the date that is 180 
days after the date of the relevant determina-
tion of the President under such subsection. 
(b) DATA AND INFORMATION PORTABILITY TO AL-
TERNATIVE APPLICATIONS.—Before the date on which a 
prohibition under subsection (a) applies to a foreign adver-
sary controlled application, the entity that owns or con-
trols such application shall provide, upon request by a user 
of such application within the land or maritime borders 
of United States, to such user all the available data related 
to the account of such user with respect to such applica-
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tion. Such data shall be provided in a machine readable 
format and shall include any data maintained by such ap-
plication with respect to the account of such user, includ-
ing content (including posts, photos, and videos) and all 
other account information. 
(c) EXEMPTIONS.— 
(1) 
EXEMPTIONS
FOR
QUALIFIED 
DIVESTITURES.—Subsection (a)— 
(A) does not apply to a foreign adversary 
controlled application with respect to which a 
qualified divestiture is executed before the date 
on which a prohibition under subsection (a) 
would begin to apply to such application; and 
(B) shall cease to apply in the case of a 
foreign adversary controlled application with re-
spect to which a qualified divestiture is exe-
cuted after the date on which a prohibition 
under subsection (a) applies to such application. 
(2) EXEMPTIONS
FOR
CERTAIN
NECESSARY 
SERVICES.—Subsections (a) and (b) do not apply to 
services provided with respect to a foreign adversary 
controlled application that are necessary for an enti-
ty to attain compliance with such subsections. 
(d) ENFORCEMENT.— 
(1) CIVIL PENALTIES.— 
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