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Bill · 119th Congress · S 1038
TRACE Act
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Introduced 2025-03-13Topic: public safety · criminal justice · environmentSummary
Summary by the Congressional Research ServiceTracking 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.
Sponsors
- Thom Tillis Republican sponsor
- 5 cosponsors
Action history
| Date | Chamber | Action | Status effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-04 | House | Held at the desk. | |
| 2025-09-04 | House | Received in the House. | |
| 2025-09-04 | Senate | Message on Senate action sent to the House. | |
| 2025-09-02 | Senate | Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5987; text: CR S5987) | |
| 2025-09-02 | Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. | floor pass | |
| 2025-07-28 | Senate | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 126. | |
| 2025-07-28 | Senate | Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Grassley with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report. | refer |
| 2025-07-28 | Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Grassley with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report. | report | |
| 2025-07-24 | Senate | Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. | refer |
| 2025-03-13 | Senate | Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. | refer |
| 2025-03-13 | Introduced in Senate | introduce |