Passed the Senate on December 14, 2022 (With unanimous consent)
Passed the Senate on December 22, 2022 (68–29 as Division R of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 H.R. 2617)
Agreed to by the House on December 23, 2022 (225–201–1 as the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 H.R. 2617)
Signed into law by President Joe Biden on December 29, 2022
The No TikTok on Government Devices Act is a United States federal law that prohibits the use of TikTok on all federal government devices.[1]
Originally introduced as a stand-alone bill in 2020, it was signed into law as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 on December 29, 2022, by President Joe Biden.[2]
Legislative history
The No TikTok on Government Devices Act (S. 3455) was originally introduced in 2020 by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) and passed the United States Senate by unanimous consent on August 6, 2020.[3] The bill (S. 1143) was reintroduced on April 15, 2021, by Senator Hawley and it passed the Senate by unanimous consent again on December 14, 2022.[4]
The bill was later included in the year-end omnibus spending bill as Division R of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, which then passed the Senate 68–29 on December 22, 2022, and the United States House of Representatives 225–201–1 on December 23, 2022, before being signed into law on December 29, 2022, by President Joe Biden.[5]