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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[S. 1038 Engrossed in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 1038

_______________________________________________________________________

 AN ACT

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. 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.

    (3) Territorial waters of the united states.--The term 
 ``territorial waters of the United States'' means all waters of 
 the territorial sea of the United States, 12 nautical miles 
 wide, adjacent to the coast of the United States and seaward of 
 the territorial baseline, as described in Presidential 
 Proclamation 5928 of December 27, 1988.

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

 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 or in the territorial waters of the United 
States, including any specific location details about the unit of 
Federal land or the area of the territorial waters of the United States 
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 or in the territorial 
waters of the United States.

 Passed the Senate September 2, 2025.

 Attest:

 Secretary.
119th CONGRESS

 1st Session

 S. 1038

_______________________________________________________________________

 AN ACT

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.