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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[H.R. 2150 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2150

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

                             March 14, 2025

   Mr. Neguse (for himself, Mr. Burchett, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. 
  Lawler, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, and Mr. Fitzpatrick) 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--
            (1) 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; or
            (2) in the case of unidentified remains of a person, 
        whether the remains were located on Federal land, including any 
        specific location details about the unit of Federal land on 
        which the remains were located.

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--
            (1) the missing person's last known location was confirmed 
        or was suspected to have been on Federal land, disaggregated by 
        the Federal land management agency with jurisdiction of the 
        Federal land; or
            (2) unidentified remains of a person were located on 
        Federal land, disaggregated by the Federal land management 
        agency with jurisdiction of the 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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