ELON Act

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.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 870 Introduced in House (IH)]

<DOC>






118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 870

 To submit to Congress a report on payments made by the Department of 
         Justice to certain companies, and for other purposes.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 8, 2023

Mrs. Boebert (for herself, Mrs. Luna, Mr. Nehls, Mr. Gaetz, Mr. Gosar, 
  Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. Burlison, Mr. Donalds, and Mr. Clyde) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
 To submit to Congress a report on payments made by the Department of 
         Justice to certain companies, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Exposing Lewd Outlays for social 
Networking companies Act'' or the ``ELON Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PAYMENTS TO CERTAIN COMPANIES.

    (a) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to 
the relevant committees a report on all payments, made by the 
Department of Justice during the period beginning on January 1, 2015 
and ending on the date of enactment of this Act, to any of the 
following companies:
            (1) Twitter.
            (2) Meta.
            (3) Google.
            (4) Microsoft Corporation.
            (5) Apple.
    (b) Moratorium.--Beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and 
ending on the date that is 1 year after the date of enactment of this 
Act, it shall be unlawful for the Department of Justice to use Federal 
funds to make payments to the companies described in subsection (a), 
unless such funds are lawfully owed to any such company.
    (c) Relevant Committees Defined.--In this section, the term 
``relevant committees'' means--
            (1) the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
        Representatives;
            (2) the Committee on Oversight and Accountability of the 
        House of Representatives;
            (3) the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
        House of Representatives;
            (4) the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate;
            (5) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 
        of the Senate; and
            (6) the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
        Senate.
                                 <all>