House
Jul 11, 2011To authorize funding for, and increase accessibility to, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, to facilitate data sharing between such system and the National Crime Information Center database of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to provide incentive grants to help facilitate reporting to such systems, and for other purposes.
Summary
Official
Billy's Law or the Help Find the Missing Act - Authorizes the Attorney General to maintain public databases, known as the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System or NamUs, to contain missing persons records and unidentified remains cases to assist in identifying missing people and solve cases of unidentified human remains. (Transfers to such System all functions, personnel, assets,...
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Introduced(3/31/11)
Committee
Passed
House
Passed
Senate
President
Law
Sponsor
CM
Mr. Murphy
Senate (D) Connecticut
Cosponsors (9)
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Jul 11, 2011