[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 142 (Thursday, September 12, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S6036]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     TRACKING AND REPORTING ABSENT COMMUNITY-MEMBERS EVERYWHERE ACT

  Ms. BUTLER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on the Judiciary be discharged from further consideration of S. 2120 
and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 2120) 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.

  There being no objection, the committee was discharged, and the 
Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Ms. BUTLER. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read 
a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made 
and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 2120) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed as follows:

                                S. 2120

       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. DEFINITIONS.

       In this Act:
       (1) Attorney general.--The term ``Attorney General'' means 
     the Attorney General, acting through the Director of the 
     National Institute of Justice.
       (2) Federal land.--The term ``Federal land'' means land 
     owned by the United States that is under the administrative 
     jurisdiction of--
       (A) the Secretary of Agriculture;
       (B) the Secretary of the Interior (except land held in 
     trust for the benefit of an Indian Tribe); or
       (C) the Secretary of Defense only with respect to land and 
     water resources projects administered by the Corps of 
     Engineers.

     SEC. 3. DATA FIELD IN THE NATIONAL MISSING AND UNIDENTIFIED 
                   PERSONS SYSTEM RELATED TO FEDERAL LAND.

       The Attorney General 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. 4. REPORT.

       Not later than January 15 of the second calendar year that 
     begins after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually 
     thereafter, the Attorney General shall submit to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on 
     the Judiciary of the House of Representatives 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.

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