3.0.0 1038 2026-04-01T16:10:32Z 2026-04-01T16:10:32Z Senate S S 2025-03-13 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1038 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Reported By 2025-07-28T19:57:29Z Markup By 2025-07-24T19:03:14Z Referred To 2025-03-13T18:00:34Z 2025-09-04 11:24:45 Held at the desk. Floor H15000 2 House floor actions 2025-09-04 11:20:10 Received in the House. Floor H14000 2 House floor actions 2025-09-04 Senate Message on Senate action sent to the House. Floor 2025-09-02 Senate Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5987; text: CR S5987) Floor 2025-09-02 Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. Floor 17000 9 Library of Congress 2025-07-28 Senate Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 126. Calendars 2025-07-28 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Grassley with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report. Committee 2025-07-28 Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Grassley with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report. Committee 14000 9 Library of Congress ssju00 Judiciary Committee 2025-07-24 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. Committee 2025-03-13 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2025-03-13 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress T000476 Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC] Thomas Tillis R NC Roland N P000145 Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA] Alex Padilla D CA 2025-03-13 True C001047 Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV] Shelley Capito R WV Moore 2025-03-13 True B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2025-03-13 True M001169 Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT] Christopher Murphy D CT S. 2025-03-13 True C001088 Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE] Christopher Coons D DE A. 2025-07-28 False 2025-09-24T12:01:00Z S. 1038, TRACE Act https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61761 As passed by the Senate on September 2, 2025 Crime and Law Enforcement Computers and information technology 2025-08-07T17:53:03Z Congressional oversight 2025-08-07T17:53:03Z Criminal justice information and records 2025-08-07T17:53:03Z Government information and archives 2025-08-07T17:53:03Z Missing persons 2025-08-07T17:53:03Z Crime and Law Enforcement 2025-05-13T17:50:00Z 55 2025-09-02 Passed Senate 2026-04-01T16:10:23Z 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.

]]> TRACE Act Display Title 45 TRACE Act 2025-09-05T11:03:18Z Short Title(s) as Passed Senate 105 TRACE Act 2025-09-03T04:08:18Z S Senate Engrossed in Senate ES Short Title(s) as Passed Senate 105 Tracking and Reporting Absent Community-Members Everywhere Act 2025-09-03T04:08:18Z S Senate Engrossed in Senate ES Short Title(s) as Reported to Senate 103 Tracking and Reporting Absent Community-Members Everywhere Act 2025-07-30T06:38:22Z S Senate Reported to Senate RS Short Title(s) as Reported to Senate 103 TRACE Act 2025-07-30T06:38:22Z S Senate Reported to Senate RS Official Title as Introduced 6 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. 2025-04-03T13:33:31Z Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 TRACE Act 2025-04-03T13:23:21Z Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Tracking and Reporting Absent Community-Members Everywhere Act 2025-04-03T13:23:21Z Introduced in Senate IS Engrossed in Senate 2025-09-02T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s1038es/xml/BILLS-119s1038es.xml Reported to Senate 2025-07-28T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s1038rs/xml/BILLS-119s1038rs.xml Introduced in Senate 2025-03-13T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s1038is/xml/BILLS-119s1038is.xml 2025-09-04 Held at the desk. 11:24:45 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.