S. 1038: TRACE Act

119th Congress · introduced 2025-03-13 · Crime and Law Enforcement · Latest: Held at the desk.

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TRACE Act

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Tracking and Reporting Absent Community-Members Everywhere Act or the TRACE Act This bill requires the National Institute of Justice to include in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) an additional data field for information about whether the last known location of a missing person was on federal land or in the territorial waters of the United States. NamUs is a national information clearinghouse and resource center for cases involving missing persons and unidentified or unclaimed remains.

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TRACE Act

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Sponsor: Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC] · 5 cosponsors

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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-119s1038.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/119/s>

Record fed-us-cong119-s1038 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong119 · updated 2026-11-03 by psicol fed-bills