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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 765
To prohibit the use of DeepSeek by the executive agencies, and for other
purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
FEBRUARY27, 2025
Ms. R
OSEN(for herself, Mr. HUSTED, and Mr. RICKETTS) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
A BILL
To prohibit the use of DeepSeek by the executive agencies,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No DeepSeek on Gov-4
ernment Devices Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF DEEPSEEK. 6
(a) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 7
(1) C
OVERED APPLICATION .—The term ‘‘cov-8
ered application’’ means the DeepSeek application or 9
any successor application or service developed or 10
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provided by High Flyer or an entity owned by High 1
Flyer. 2
(2) E
XECUTIVE AGENCY.—The term ‘‘executive 3
agency’’ has the meaning given that term in section 4
133 of title 41, United States Code. 5
(3) I
NFORMATION TECHNOLOGY .—The term 6
‘‘information technology’’ has the meaning given 7
that term in section 11101 of title 40, United States 8
Code. 9
(b) P
ROHIBITION ON THEUSE OFDEEPSEEK.— 10
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after 11
the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of 12
the Office of Management and Budget, in consulta-13
tion with the Administrator of General Services, the 14
Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Se-15
curity Agency, the Director of National Intelligence, 16
and the Secretary of Defense, and consistent with 17
the information security requirements under sub-18
chapter II of chapter 35 of title 44, United States 19
Code, shall develop standards and guidelines for ex-20
ecutive agencies that require the removal of any cov-21
ered application from information technology. 22
(2) N
ATIONAL SECURITY AND RESEARCH EX -23
CEPTIONS.—The standards and guidelines developed 24
under paragraph (1) shall include— 25
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(A) exceptions for law enforcement activi-1
ties, national security interests and activities, 2
and security researchers; and 3
(B) for any authorized use of a covered ap-4
plication under an exception, requirements for 5
executive agencies to develop and document risk 6
mitigation actions for such use. 7
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