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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. 
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 
A BILL 
To prohibit Government phones from using any financial 
service application owned or operated, directly or indi-
rectly, by the Chinese Communist Party or any member 
of such Party, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘No CCP Financial 
Apps on Government Devices Act’’. 
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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 Di-
rector of the Office of Management and Budget, in 
consultation with the Administrator of General Serv-
ices, the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infra-
structure Security Agency, the Director of National 
Intelligence, and the Secretary of Defense, and con-
sistent 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 guide-
lines developed under paragraph (1) shall include 
the following: 
(A) Exceptions for law enforcement activi-
ties, 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 miti-
gation actions for such use. 
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(C) An exception that allows financial reg-
ulators to test the covered application for com-
pliance or other purposes in accordance with 
any requirement from the national security 
agencies, including the Department of Home-
land Security, the Department of Defense, and 
the Central Intelligence Agency, that ensures 
the covered application is not able to access in-
formation from the financial regulator. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) COVERED APPLICATION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘covered ap-
plication’’ means any financial service applica-
tion 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 para-
graph, ‘‘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 
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that term in section 11101 of title 40, United States 
Code. 
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