A bipartisan effort to ban the social media platform TikTok kicked off Tuesday in Washington, D.C. A small coalition of three lawmakers — one senator and two representatives, two Republicans and one Democrat — submitted companion bills that would ban the popular video app.

The nine-page bill mentions TikTok by name. Within 30 days of passage, the president would be directed to ban the app, along with any others headquartered in certain “countries of concern.” That list includes China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela.

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It’s unlikely either bill will pass during the current term of Congress. But in the new year, Republicans will control the U.S. House. It’s the House bill that has bipartisan support, with Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Wisconsin, and Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Illinois, as co-sponsors. Gallagher has referred to TikTok as digital fentanyl.

Marco Rubio, R-Florida is the only sponsor of the Senate bill. Democrats will control the Senate in the new year. Any successful effort to ban TikTok would have to be bipartisan.

The bill to ban TikTok has yet to earn co-sponsors from Michigan. But congressional records show that Michigan Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Bruce Township, co-sponsored a bill to in April 2021 to ban TikTok on government devices.

The next month, in May 2021, McClain introduced a bill that would also dismantle TikTok in the United States: The Anti-CCP Espionage via Social Media Act of 2021.

Within 90 days of passage, the bill would require TikTok’s owner, ByteDance, “to divest itself of (1) any assets or property used to enable or support ByteDance’s operation of the TikTok application in the United States, and (2) any data obtained or derived from TikTok application or Musical.ly application users in the United States.”

“TikTok poses a major threat to the United States and our national security due to its ties to the Chinese Communist Party,” McClain said when she introduced the bill. Her office added that McClain “introduced this bill as part of the Republican Study Committee’s initiative to counter Communist China.”

The bill never got a vote.

In July 2021, Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet, introduced a bill that would authorize sanctions against TikTok’s owners. While the latest bill says the president “shall” shut down TikTok in America, Bergman’s bill only says the president “may” take action.

Officials in Ottawa County’s Park Township voted in November to enforce a long-dormant ban on short-term rentals in residential areas. This came after a year of the township planning commission working to create a resolution, which may have included a measure to allow the practice but require permits. During discussions before the vote, two trustees expressed concerns about ensuring neighborhoods were kept quiet from raucous visitors. But noise does not appear to have been a problem, according to the response from a Freedom of Information Act request. It shows that the township has received very few complaints about short-term rental properties.

Township board members offered several explanations during the Nov. 10 meeting for why they were voting to ban short-term rentals. One board member noted the township was always considered a rural residential community and people expect calm, quiet neighborhoods. Another board member shared the sentiment, suggesting that short-term rentals cause noise issues.

Township records show, however, there were almost no problems with short-term renters in the last three years. There were 257 advertised short-term rental listings for Park Township as of Sept. 19. There was a total of 34 complaints over three years.

There was only one complaint in 2020, and that had to do with snow removal. There were six complaints in 2021, five of which, according to the documents, were “involving existence.” One for disorderly noise. In 2022 the township received 27 complaints. There were two complaints about disorderly persons, two for "unwholesome items,” one for overcrowding, one due to burning (context unknown), and 21 “involving existence.”

CapCon asked the township if “involving existence” means that neighbors complained about living next door to a short-term rental. We also asked how many complaints came from the same person.

Howard Fink, township manager and FOIA coordinator, said in an email that a new Freedom of Information Act request is required to obtain the information. That request has been sent, and CapCon will report back as we learn more.