HR 870 United States House · 118th Congress

ELON Act

Summary
Exposing Lewd Outlays for social Networking companies Act or the ELON Act This bill requires a report on Department of Justice (DOJ) payments to certain companies (i.e., Twitter, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Apple) and imposes a one-year moratorium on payments to these companies. Specifically, the bill requires the Government Accountability Office to submit a report to specified congressional committees on all payments made by DOJ to these companies since January 1, 2015. Additionally, the bill imposes a one-year moratorium on DOJ that temporarily prohibits the use of federal funds to make payments to these companies, unless such funds are lawfully owed to any such company.
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Feb 2023
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Introduced Feb 8, 2023 Last action Feb 8, 2023
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Feb 8, 2023
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Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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Feb 8, 2023
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