# 119-hr-7834: Safe Cloud Storage Act

119-hr-7834, Safe Cloud Storage Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Lee, Laurel M. [R-FL-15] (R-FL); status passed_house (as of 2026-11-01).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-7834
- Congress: 119
- Title: Safe Cloud Storage Act
- Status: passed_house
- Introduced: 2026-03-05
- Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Laurel M. [R-FL-15] (R-FL)
- Cosponsors: 5
- Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-11-01

## Summary

**Secure cloud storage for child sexual exploitation evidence.** This bill would create rules allowing federal, state, tribal, and local law enforcement to hire certified cloud vendors to store, provide access to, and perform forensic processing on child pornography, child obscenity, and intimate visual depictions of minors while imposing strict security and access limits. - Law enforcement and prosecutors would be able to contract approved cloud service providers to hold and analyze sensitive evidence, with default U.S. storage and agency-controlled access. - Cloud service providers could qualify as "approved vendors" if they meet cybersecurity, contractual, and audit requirements and would receive limited civil and criminal liability for carrying out their contracted duties, except for intentional misconduct, negligent acts showing actual malice, reckless disregard, or unrelated conduct. - The bill requires strong technical and record rules for approved vendors: end-to-end encryption or equivalent, access minimization and lists, annual independent cybersecurity audits measured against NIST standards, retention under FBI Criminal Justice Information Services policies or for at least the statute of limitations or sentence duration, a 30-day DOJ notification for covered contracts, and preservation obligations if an agency breaches or terminates a contract until lawful transfer of evidence occurs.

## Cosponsors (5)

- Rep. Dean, Madeleine [D-PA-4] (D-PA), 2026-03-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9] (D-TN), 2026-03-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Knott, Brad [R-NC-13] (R-NC), 2026-03-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. McGuire, John J. [R-VA-5] (R-VA), 2026-06-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Hageman, Harriet M. [R-WY-At Large] (R-WY), 2026-08-27T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Rules for evidence storage and agency use: benefit, medium. If enacted, agencies that store this material with an approved vendor would have to keep it under one of three rules. They would either follow FBI CJIS security policy, follow existing federal, state, or local retention rules, or, if none exist, keep it at least through the statute of limitations o…
- New rules and shield for cloud providers: mixed, medium. If enacted, the bill would define which cloud providers count as approved vendors for law enforcement evidence. Approved vendors would need to store this material in the U.S. unless the agency allows a foreign transfer for an investigation. They would limit and log staff access, use end‑to‑end encr…

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- 119-hr-1422: Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025
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- 119-hr-2102: Major Richard Star Act
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## Sources
- [119-hr-7834 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7834)

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- [119-hr-842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage A…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-842)
- [119-hr-1422: Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1422)
- [119-hr-3514: Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3514)
- [119-hr-2102: Major Richard Star Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2102)
- [119-hr-979: AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-979)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7834 (as of 2026-11-01).