S. 1942: Savanna's Act
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S. 1942: Savanna's Act
115th Congress · introduced 2017-10-05 · Native Americans · Latest: Held at the desk.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2017-10-05 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Heitkamp, Heidi [D-ND] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Held at the desk. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Savanna's Act
Plain summary
Savanna's Act This bill directs the Department of Justice (DOJ) to review, revise, and develop law enforcement and justice protocols to address missing and murdered Indians. Among other things, DOJ must: provide training to law enforcement agencies on how to record tribal enrollment for victims in federal databases, conduct outreach to Indian tribes regarding the ability to enter information through the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System or other public portal, develop guidelines for responding to cases of missing and murdered Indians, and report statistics on missing and murdered Indians. Federal law enforcement agencies must modify their guidelines to incorporate the guidelines developed by DOJ. The FBI must include gender in its annual statistics on missing and unidentified persons published on its website.
Congressional Research Service summary (Passed Senate amended), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Sen. Heitkamp, Heidi [D-ND] · 17 cosponsors
Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: S. 1942, Savanna’s Act (2018-11-29)
Cosponsors on this site
Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Susan M. Collins (R-ME), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Tina Smith (D-MN), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Patty Murray (D-WA), Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Passed Senate amended)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-115s1942.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/115/s>
Record fed-us-cong115-s1942 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115