Senate
Sep 4, 2025

TRACE Act

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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.

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Passed Senate, sent to House

Introduced(3/13/25)
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Passed House
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Mr. Tillis

Senate (R) North Carolina

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Sep 4, 2025

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