U.S. Data on U.S. Soil Act

Bill: 118-hr-6410
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Luna, Anna Paulina [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2023-11-14
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Asia

Caribbean area

China

Computer security and identity theft

Computers and information technology

Corporate finance and management

Cuba

Europe

Federal preemption

Fraud offenses and financial crimes

Iran

Latin America

North Korea

Right of privacy

Russia

State and local government operations

Venezuela
Latest action: action_date: 2023-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce.

Summaries:

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 6410 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 14, 2023 Mrs. Luna (for herself, Mrs. Miller of Illinois , Mr. Norman , and Mr. Santos ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To prohibit persons from storing the covered data of covered platforms in the United States in a foreign adversary or permitting governmental officials of foreign adversaries to access the covered data, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the U.S. Data on U.S. Soil Act . 2. Storage and access by foreign adversary of covered data (a) Regulations Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commission shall promulgate, under section 553 of title 5, United States Code, regulations in accordance with this section that prohibit a person, with respect to the covered data of any covered platform in the United States, from knowingly— (1) storing the covered data of the covered platform in a physical data center in a foreign adversary; or (2) permitting a governmental official of a foreign adversary to access the covered data. (b) Enforcement by Commission (1) Unfair or deceptive acts or practices A violation of this section or a regulation promulgated under this section shall be treated as a violation of a regulation under section 18(a)(1)(B) of the Federal Trade Commission Act ( 15 U.S.C. 57a(a)(1)(B) ) regarding unfair or deceptive acts or practices. (2) Powers of Commission The Commission shall enforce this section and the regulations promulgated under this section in the same manner, by the same means, and with the same jurisdiction, powers, and duties as though all applicable terms and provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act ( 15 U.S.C. 41 et seq. ) were incorporated into and made a part of this section. Any person who violates this section or a regulation promulgated under this section shall be subject to the penalties and entitled to the privileges and immunities provided in the Federal Trade Commission Act. (c) Relationship to State laws (1) Preemption Nothing in this Act, or a regulation promulgated under this Act, shall be construed to preempt, displace, or supplant any State law, except to the extent that a provision of State law conflicts with a provision of this Act, or a regulation promulgated under this Act, and then only to the extent of the conflict. (2) Greater protection under State law For purposes of this subsection, a provision of State law does not conflict with a provision of this Act, or a regulation promulgated under this Act, if such provision of State law provides greater privacy protection or security of covered data than the privacy protection or security provided by such provision of this Act or such regulation. (d) Savings clause Nothing in this section may be construed to limit the authority of the Commission under any other provision of law. (e) Report to Congress Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commission, in consultation with the Attorney General, shall submit to Congress a report on the implementation and enforcement of this section. (f) Definitions In this section: (1) Commission The term Commission means the Federal Trade Commission. (2) Covered data The term covered data means information that identifies or is linked or reasonably linkable, alone or in combination with other information, to an individual who is a national of the United States or a device that identifies or is linked or reasonably linkable to such an individual, and may include derived data and unique persistent identifiers. (3) Covered platform The term covered platform means any website, desktop application, or mobile application that is consumer-facing, sells digital advertising space, and has more than 100,000,000 monthly active users for a majority of months during the preceding 12 months. (4) Foreign adversary The term foreign adversary — (A) has the meaning given that term in section 8(c)(2) of the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 ( 47 U.S.C. 1607(c)(2) ); and (B) includes— (i) the People’s Republic of China, including the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (China); (ii) the Republic of Cuba (Cuba); (iii) the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran); (iv) the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea); (v) the Russian Federation (Russia); and (vi) Venezuelan politician Nicolas Maduro (Maduro Regime). (5) National of the United States The term national of the United States has the meaning given that term in section 101(a)(22) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(22) ). (6) State The term State means each State of the United States, the District of Columbia, each commonwealth, territory or possession of the United States, and each federally recognized Indian Tribe.