TRACE Act

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3868 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3868

To direct the Attorney General to include a data field in the National 
 Missing and Unidentified Persons System to indicate whether the last 
 known location of a missing person was confirmed or was suspected to 
           have been on Federal land, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 6, 2023

   Mr. Neguse (for himself, Mr. Burchett, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. 
Lawler, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Fitzpatrick, and Mr. Lieu) introduced 
    the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Attorney General to include a data field in the National 
 Missing and Unidentified Persons System to indicate whether the last 
 known location of a missing person was confirmed or was suspected to 
           have been on Federal land, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Tracking and Reporting Absent 
Community-members Everywhere Act'' or the ``TRACE Act''.

SEC. 2. DATA FIELD IN THE NATIONAL MISSING AND UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS 
              SYSTEM RELATED TO FEDERAL LAND.

    The Attorney General, acting through the Director of the National 
Institute of Justice, shall include in the National Missing and 
Unidentified Persons System a data field to indicate whether the last 
known location of the missing person was confirmed or was suspected to 
have been on Federal land, including any specific location details 
about the unit of Federal land that was the last known location of the 
missing person.

SEC. 3. REPORT.

    Beginning in the second calendar year that begins after the date of 
enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, on January 15th, the 
Attorney General, acting through the Director of the National Institute 
of Justice, shall submit to the Committees on the Judiciary of the 
House of Representatives and of the Senate a report that contains, for 
the previous calendar year, the number of cases in the National Missing 
and Unidentified Persons System for which the missing person's last 
known location was confirmed or was suspected to have been on Federal 
land.

SEC. 4. DEFINITION.

    In this Act, the term ``Federal land'' means land owned by the 
United States that is under the administrative jurisdiction of the 
Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Interior (except land 
held in trust for the benefit of an Indian Tribe), or the Secretary of 
Defense only with respect to land and water resources projects 
administered by the Army Corps of Engineers.
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