House passes divest-or-ban bill 352-65 after state-level TikTok bans were blocked in court.
House passes TikTok divest-or-ban bill
Event Not yet reviewed This page has not yet been through the automated review pipeline.The House passes H.R. 7521 by 352-65, requiring ByteDance to divest TikTok, after state-level bans had been blocked in court on First Amendment grounds.
Sources
- 01.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Roll Call 86, H.R. 7521, On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. (2024). Official roll call record: 13 March 2024, passed 352-65 under suspension of the rules.
- 02.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. H.R. 7521, Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (as reported in the House). (2024). Bill text as it stood before House passage; enacted the following month as Division H of Public Law 118-50.
- 03.
Supreme Court of the United States. TikTok Inc. v. Garland, 604 U.S. ___. (2025). Per curiam opinion of 17 January 2025 rejecting the First Amendment challenge to the divest-or-ban provisions, the outcome of the legal fight this entry describes as pending.
Timeline
Timeline view for this event will display chronological context and related events.
March 2024
House passes TikTok divest-or-ban bill
Context
Related events and background
Network Graph
Network visualization showing connections between this event and related entities.