Bill Details
HR.2403 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-03-27 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced Date
2025-03-27
Policy Area
Commerce
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This bill would require websites and mobile apps that store user information in China to clearly tell users that their data is being stored there. It would also require them to say whether the Chinese Communist Party or a Chinese state-owned company can access that information. The goal is to give people a clear warning when their personal data is kept outside the United States in China.
- The disclosure must be clear and easy to notice for anyone who uses the website or app.
- If a company is required to make this disclosure, it would be illegal to knowingly give false information about where the data is stored or who can access it.
- The Federal Trade Commission would enforce the bill, and breaking the rules would be treated like an unfair or deceptive business practice.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2403 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2403
To require that any person that maintains an internet website or that
sells or distributes a mobile application that stores and maintains
information collected from such website or application in the People's
Republic of China to disclose that such information is stored and
maintained in the People's Republic of China and whether the Chinese
Communist Party or a Chinese State-owned entity has access to such
information.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 27, 2025
Mr. Allen (for himself and Ms. Kaptur) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
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A BILL
To require that any person that maintains an internet website or that
sells or distributes a mobile application that stores and maintains
information collected from such website or application in the People's
Republic of China to disclose that such information is stored and
maintained in the People's Republic of China and whether the Chinese
Communist Party or a Chinese State-owned entity has access to such
information.
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 ``Telling Everyone the Location of
data Leaving the U.S. Act'' or the ``TELL Act''.
SEC. 2. COUNTRY DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS.
(a) Disclosure Requirements.--Any person that maintains an internet
website or that sells or distributes a mobile application that stores
and maintains information collected from such website or application in
the People's Republic of China shall disclose to any individual who
downloads or otherwise uses such website or application, in a clear and
conspicuous manner, the following:
(1) That such information is stored and maintained in the
People's Republic of China.
(2) Whether the Chinese Communist Party or a Chinese State-
owned entity has access to such information.
(b) False Information.--It shall be unlawful for a person required
to disclose information under subsection (a) to knowingly disclose
false information under such subsection.
SEC. 3. ENFORCEMENT.
(a) Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices.--A violation of this Act
shall be treated as a violation of a rule defining an unfair or
deceptive act or practice prescribed under section 18(a)(1)(B) of the
Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 57a(a)(1)(B)).
(b) Powers of Federal Trade Commission.--
(1) In general.--The Federal Trade Commission shall enforce
this Act 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 Act.
(2) Privileges and immunities.--Any person that violates
this Act shall be subject to the penalties, and entitled to the
privileges and immunities, provided in the Federal Trade
Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.).
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