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The bill doubles the compliance/review timeline to ease agency and regulator burden and enable more thorough security reviews, but at the cost of delaying enforcement and potentially prolonging exposure to risks from foreign-adversary-controlled apps.
State governments and tech workers (and the reviewers they rely on) get up to 540 days instead of 270 days to complete reviews of foreign-adversary-controlled apps, allowing more thorough cybersecurity assessments that could catch more threats.
Federal agencies and regulated entities get 540 days (rather than 270) to comply with or complete the specified actions, reducing short-term administrative strain and compliance burden.
Taxpayers and tech workers face delayed implementation of protections or enforcement because extending the deadline pushes back when restrictions or mitigations take effect.
Taxpayers remain potentially exposed longer to risks from foreign-adversary-controlled applications because the longer compliance timeline postpones restrictive measures.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Extends the statutory deadline in the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act from 270 days to 540 days.
Official title: To amend the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act to extend the deadline by which TikTok must be sold in order to avoid being banned.
Introduced January 14, 2025 by Ro Khanna · Last progress January 14, 2025
Doubles the deadline in existing law for actions related to foreign-adversary–controlled applications from 270 days to 540 days. It amends the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act to give agencies, companies, or affected parties twice as much time to meet the statutory timeline specified in that provision. The change is a single, narrow timing amendment: it does not create new programs, change substantive requirements, or add funding. It solely lengthens the period for the covered compliance or enforcement step set by the earlier law.