Enacts new GS 143-162.10 which provides as follows. Defines covered application as (1) TikTok or any successor application or service developed or provided by ByteDance Limited or an entity owned by ByteDance Limited or (2) WeChat or any successor application or service developed or provided by Tencent Holdings Limited or an entity owned by Tencent Holdings Limited. Prohibits State employees and employees of a local political subdivision of the State from downloading or using a covered application or accessing the website of a covered application on or using any government-issued device (cellular phone, desktop computer, laptop, or other electronic device capable of connecting to the Internet issued by the State or by a local political subdivision of the State) or information technology. Prohibits a person contracting with the State, or with a local political subdivision of the State, from accessing, downloading or using a covered application on equipment owned or leased by the State or by a local political subdivision of the State. Prohibits a person from accessing, downloading, or using a covered application on any government-issued device or during participation in any State-funded program. Requires state agencies and local political subdivisions of the State to restrict access to the websites of covered applications on government-issued devices and information technology. Defines information technology as defined by GS 143B-1320(a)(11) (set of tools, processes, and methodologies, including, but not limited to, coding and programming; data communications, data conversion, and data analysis; architecture; planning; storage and retrieval; systems analysis and design; systems control; mobile applications; and equipment and services employed to collect, process, and present information to support the operation of an organization. Also includes office automation, multimedia, telecommunications, and any personnel and support personnel required for planning and operations). The term also includes (1) any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment used in the automatic acquisition, storage, analysis, evaluation, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or information by a State-funded program, whether the equipment is used by the State-funded program directly or is used by a contractor under a contract with the State-funded program that requires the use of that equipment in the performance of a service or the furnishing of a product and (2) computers, mobile devices, and virtual machines as well as ancillary equipment, peripheral equipment designed to be controlled by the central processing unit of a computer, software, firmware and similar procedures, services (including support services), and related resources.

Requires the removal, deletion, and uninstallation of these applications no later than 30 days after the act is enacted.

Specifies that the act does not prevent prosecutorial and law enforcement agencies from accessing the applications covered by this act for prosecutorial, law enforcement, and investigative purposes. Requires the Departments of Information Technology and Public Safety, by March 1, 2023, to develop jointly the guidelines necessary for prosecutorial and law enforcement agency access to covered applications along with the risk mitigation actions necessary for such use.