[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1038 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1038

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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 13, 2025

Mr. Tillis (for himself, Mr. Padilla, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Blumenthal, and 
  Mr. Murphy) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Tracking and Reporting Absent 
Community-Members Everywhere Act'' or the ``TRACE Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Attorney general.--The term ``Attorney General'' means 
        the Attorney General, acting through the Director of the 
        National Institute of Justice.
            (2) Federal land.--The term ``Federal land'' means land 
        owned by the United States that is under the administrative 
        jurisdiction of--
                    (A) the Secretary of Agriculture;
                    (B) the Secretary of the Interior (except land held 
                in trust for the benefit of an Indian Tribe); or
                    (C) the Secretary of Defense only with respect to 
                land and water resources projects administered by the 
                Corps of Engineers.

SEC. 3. DATA FIELD IN THE NATIONAL MISSING AND UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS 
              SYSTEM RELATED TO FEDERAL LAND.

    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.

SEC. 4. REPORT.

    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.
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