TRACE Act
Summary
Tracking and Reporting Absent Community-Members Everywhere Act or the TRACE Act This bill requires the National Institute of Justice to include additional data categories in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), including information about persons who go missing on federal land. It also requires the Departments of Agriculture, Interior, and Defense to report existing missing persons cases on their federal land to NamUs.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Sep 2022
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Sep 15, 2022
Last action Nov 1, 2022
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
5
Key actions
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Committee
4
Nov 1, 2022
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
lower
Oct 4, 2022
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
lower
Sep 16, 2022
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
lower
Sep 15, 2022
Committee
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
lower
Sep 15, 2022
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 4 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Joe Neguse
DDemocratic
Co
Brian K. Fitzpatrick
RRepublican
Co
Robin L. Kelly
DDemocratic
Co
Ted Lieu
DDemocratic
Co
Tim Burchett
RRepublican
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