Senate
Sep 30, 2015

A bill to 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.

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Billy's Law or the Help Find the Missing Act This bill authorizes the Department of Justice (DOJ), through the National Institute of Justice, to maintain public databases, known as the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), of missing persons and unidentified remains. It requires DOJ to facilitate information sharing between the NamUs databases and the...

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Introduced(9/30/15)
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Passed House
Passed Senate
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Mr. Murphy

Senate (D) Connecticut

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Sep 30, 2015