S 1038
TRACE Act
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Bill overview
The TRACE Act aims to improve the tracking of missing persons cases by requiring the National Institute of Justice to add a specific data field to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs). This new field will record whether the last known location of a missing person was on federal land or in U.S. territorial waters. The bill directs the Attorney General to implement this change and requires an annual report detailing the number of missing persons cases with a last known location on federal land.
Key provisions
- Requires the National Institute of Justice to add a data field to NamUs.
- The data field will indicate if a missing person’s last known location was on federal land.
- Defines ‘Federal land’ for the purposes of the bill.
- Mandates an annual report to Congress on missing persons cases with a last known location on federal land.
Who is affected
- Missing persons advocates
- Law enforcement agencies
- The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
- Federal land management agencies
- Families of missing persons
Notable changes
- Adds a new data field to NamUs to specifically track locations on federal land.
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Primary sponsor
Thomas Tillis
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
S. 1038
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
A BILL
To direct the Attorney General to include a data field in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System to indicate whether the last known location of a missing person was confirmed or was suspected to have been on Federal land, and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited as the Tracking and Reporting Absent Community-Members Everywhere Act TRACE Act
or the
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In this Act:
The Attorney General shall include in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System a data field to indicate whether the last known location of the missing person was confirmed or was suspected to have been on Federal land, including any specific location details about the unit of Federal land that was the last known location of the missing person.
Not later than January 15 of the second calendar year that begins after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report that contains, for the previous calendar year, the number of cases in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System for which the missing person’s last known location was confirmed or was suspected to have been on Federal land.