- Stage
- Passed first chamber
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 6
- Latest action
- Sep 4, 2025
What it does
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.
Official summary · Passed Senate · Sep 2, 2025
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