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S1038Passed Senate

TRACE Act

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Introduced
In Committee
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-03-13
Introduced
5
Cosponsors
S
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Type

Sponsor

Thom Tillis
Thom Tillis
Republican · NC · Senator
Votes with party: 38.4% (297 recorded votes)

Full profile: /officials/T000476

Source: Congress.gov · FEC

Cosponsors (5)

Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.

  • Alex Padilla (D-CA)Original· 2025-03-13
  • Christopher Murphy (D-CT)Original· 2025-03-13
  • Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)Original· 2025-03-13
  • Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)Original· 2025-03-13
  • Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)· 2025-07-28

Latest Action

The most recent step in the bill's legislative path. Committee Activity below shows referrals and reports; the full action-by-action history including floor proceedings lives at Congress.gov →

Held at the desk.

2025-09-04

Source: Congress.gov

Committee Activity

Currently in

  • Senate Committee on the JudiciaryReported By · 2025-07-28

Previously

  • Judiciary CommitteeReported By · 2025-07-28
  • Judiciary CommitteeMarkup By · 2025-07-24
  • Senate Committee on the JudiciaryMarkup By · 2025-07-24
  • Judiciary CommitteeReferred To · 2025-03-13
  • Senate Committee on the JudiciaryReferred To · 2025-03-13

Plain-English Summary

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.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

Subjects

Crime and Law Enforcement
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Open text viewRead on Congress.gov

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