S. 1038 explained · 119th Congress · Pending in Congress
TRACE Act
Cosponsors: 5 (4 D, 1 R) · per Congress.gov, 2026-10-11
Introduced: 2025-03-13
Latest action (2025-09-04): Held at the desk.
What S. 1038 does, in plain terms
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.
Official summary by the Congressional Research Service, via Congress.gov.
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