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LegislationLegislation· Sep 2024
S 2120

Sponsored by Thomas Tillis (R)

TRACE Act

Would have added a federal-land field to the national missing persons database and required yearly reports on those cases.

Tradeoff

Would have required the Justice Department to track missing-person cases tied to federal land. Would have added yearly reports to Congress on those cases.

What's in it

See official bill text

The Senate passed this bill by on September 12, 2024. The bill then expired when the 118th Congress ended without House action.

  1. Senate

    Introduced

    (Jun 22, 2023)

  2. Senate

    Committee on the Judiciary(Jun 22, 2023)

  3. Senate

    Passage of the bill

    Passed by (Sep 12, 2024)

    No individual votes were recorded.

  4. Senate

    Taken away from the Committee on the Judiciary

    Discharged(Sep 12, 2024)

  5. House

    Received from the Senate

    Received(Sep 16, 2024)