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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2150 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To direct the Attorney General to include a data field in the National |
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| 6 | 6 | | Missing and Unidentified Persons System to indicate whether the last |
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| 7 | 7 | | known location of a missing person was confirmed or was suspected |
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| 8 | 8 | | to have been on Federal land, and for other purposes. |
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| 9 | 9 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 10 | 10 | | MARCH14, 2025 |
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| 11 | 11 | | Mr. N |
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| 12 | 12 | | EGUSE(for himself, Mr. BURCHETT, Ms. KELLYof Illinois, Mr. |
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| 13 | 13 | | L |
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| 14 | 14 | | AWLER, Mr. JOHNSONof Georgia, and Mr. FITZPATRICK) introduced |
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| 15 | 15 | | the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary |
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| 16 | 16 | | A BILL |
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| 17 | 17 | | To direct the Attorney General to include a data field in |
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| 18 | 18 | | the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System |
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| 19 | 19 | | to indicate whether the last known location of a missing |
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| 20 | 20 | | person was confirmed or was suspected to have been |
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| 21 | 21 | | on Federal land, and for other purposes. |
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| 22 | 22 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 23 | 23 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 24 | 24 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 25 | 25 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Tracking and Report-4 |
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| 26 | 26 | | ing Absent Community-Members Everywhere Act’’ or the 5 |
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| 27 | 27 | | ‘‘TRACE Act’’. 6 |
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| 31 | 31 | | SEC. 2. DATA FIELD IN THE NATIONAL MISSING AND UN-1 |
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| 32 | 32 | | IDENTIFIED PERSONS SYSTEM RELATED TO 2 |
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| 33 | 33 | | FEDERAL LAND. 3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | The Attorney General, acting through the Director 4 |
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| 35 | 35 | | of the National Institute of Justice, shall include in the 5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | National Missing and Unidentified Persons System a data 6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | field to indicate— 7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (1) whether the last known location of the miss-8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ing person was confirmed or was suspected to have 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | been on Federal land, including any specific location 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | details about the unit of Federal land that was the 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | last known location of the missing person; or 12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (2) in the case of unidentified remains of a per-13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | son, whether the remains were located on Federal 14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | land, including any specific location details about the 15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | unit of Federal land on which the remains were lo-16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | cated. 17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | SEC. 3. REPORT. 18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | Beginning in the second calendar year that begins 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually 20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | thereafter, on January 15th, the Attorney General, acting 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | through the Director of the National Institute of Justice, 22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | shall submit to the Committees on the Judiciary of the 23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | House of Representatives and of the Senate a report that 24 |
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| 55 | 55 | | contains, for the previous calendar year, the number of 25 |
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| 58 | 58 | | •HR 2150 IH |
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| 59 | 59 | | cases in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons 1 |
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| 60 | 60 | | System for which— 2 |
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| 61 | 61 | | (1) the missing person’s last known location 3 |
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| 62 | 62 | | was confirmed or was suspected to have been on 4 |
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| 63 | 63 | | Federal land, disaggregated by the Federal land 5 |
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| 64 | 64 | | management agency with jurisdiction of the Federal 6 |
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| 65 | 65 | | land; or 7 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (2) unidentified remains of a person were lo-8 |
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| 67 | 67 | | cated on Federal land, disaggregated by the Federal 9 |
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| 68 | 68 | | land management agency with jurisdiction of the 10 |
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| 69 | 69 | | Federal land. 11 |
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| 70 | 70 | | SEC. 4. DEFINITION. 12 |
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| 71 | 71 | | In this Act, the term ‘‘Federal land’’ means land 13 |
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| 72 | 72 | | owned by the United States that is under the administra-14 |
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| 73 | 73 | | tive jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Sec-15 |
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| 74 | 74 | | retary of the Interior (except land held in trust for the 16 |
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| 75 | 75 | | benefit of an Indian Tribe), or the Secretary of Defense 17 |
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| 76 | 76 | | only with respect to land and water resources projects ad-18 |
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| 77 | 77 | | ministered by the Army Corps of Engineers. 19 |
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