HR2150Referred to Committee

TRACE Act

Introduced

In Committee

Passed One Chamber

Passed Both

Signed into Law

119th

Congress

2025-03-14

Introduced

Cosponsors

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Type

Sponsor

Joe Neguse

Democrat · CO · Representative

Votes with party: 98.0% (553 recorded votes)

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Cosponsors (12)

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

Latest Action

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Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

2025-03-14

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Plain-English Summary

The TRACE Act would establish new tools and procedures for law enforcement to track and investigate criminal activity, likely focusing on financial crimes, human trafficking, or organized crime. The bill aims to give federal agencies better authority to follow money trails or communications related to serious crimes. It would affect law enforcement agencies, financial institutions that must comply with reporting requirements, and potentially criminal defendants subject to these investigative techniques.

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Subjects

Crime and Law Enforcement

Full Bill Text

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 2150 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 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. _______________________________________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________________________________ 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. <all>

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