Title: WeChat No More Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
WeChat No More Act
This bill prohibits federal employees from using the messaging application WeChat on government-issued devices.
Specifically, the bill prohibits employees and officers of the United States, Members of Congress, congressional employees, and officers and employees of government corporations from downloading or using WeChat, or any successor application from the developer, on any device issued by the federal government or a government corporation, with the exception of specified activities (e.g., cybersecurity research).

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4452 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4452

   To prohibit Federal employees from downloading or using WeChat on 
                          Government devices.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 5, 2020

  Mr. Kennedy 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 Federal employees from downloading or using WeChat on 
                          Government devices.

    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 ``WeChat No More Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES FROM DOWNLOADING OR USING 
              WECHAT ON GOVERNMENT DEVICES.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the terms ``congressional employee'', ``Government 
        corporation'', ``Member of Congress'', and ``officer'' have the 
        meanings given such terms in section 2107, 103, 2106, and 2104 
        of title 5, United States Code, respectively; and
            (2) the term ``Federal employee''--
                    (A) means an employee of any establishment or 
                office in the executive, legislative, or judicial 
                branch of the Federal Government; and
                    (B) includes a congressional employee.
    (b) Prohibition.--Except as provided in subsection (c), no Federal 
employee, officer, Member of Congress, or officer or employee of a 
Government corporation may download or use on any device issued or 
provided by the United States or a Government corporation WeChat, or 
any successor application that is developed by Tencent Holdings 
Limited, an entity owned by Tencent Holdings Limited, a successor to 
Tencent Holdings Limited, or an entity owned by a successor to Tencent 
Holdings Limited.
    (c) Exception.--Subsection (b) shall not apply to downloading or 
using an application on a device issued by the United States or a 
Government corporation in connection with the duties of a Federal 
employee, officer, Member of Congress, or officer or employee of a 
Government corporation relating to cybersecurity research, conducting 
an investigation, pursuing an enforcement action, a disciplinary 
action, or an intelligence activity.
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