I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1300 
To authorize funding for, and increase accessibility to, the National Missing 
and Unidentified Persons System, to facilitate data sharing between 
such system and the National Crime Information Center database of 
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to provide incentive grants to help 
facilitate reporting to such systems, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 31, 2011 
Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut (for himself and Mr. POE of Texas) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To authorize funding for, and increase accessibility to, the 
National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, to 
facilitate data sharing between such system and the Na-
tional Crime Information Center database of the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, to provide incentive grants to 
help facilitate reporting to such systems, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as ‘‘Billy’s Law’’ or ‘‘Help 
Find the Missing Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF THE NATIONAL MISSING AND 
UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS SYSTEM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General, through 
the Director of the National Institute of Justice, is author-
ized to maintain public databases, known as the ‘‘National 
Missing and Unidentified Persons System’’ or ‘‘NamUs’’, 
to contain missing persons records and unidentified re-
mains cases for purposes of assisting to identify missing 
people and solve cases of unidentified human remains. All 
functions, personnel, assets, liabilities, and administrative 
actions applicable to the National Missing and Unidenti-
fied Persons System carried out by the National Institute 
of Justice on the date before the date of the enactment 
of this Act shall be transferred to the National Missing 
and Unidentified Persons System authorized under this 
section as of the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section not 
more than a total of $2,400,000 for each of the fiscal 
years 2012 through 2017. Notwithstanding any other pro-
vision of law, the total amount of Federal funds made 
available for any of the fiscal years 2012 through 2017 
to maintain NamUs may not exceed the amount described 
in the previous sentence. 
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SEC. 3. SHARING OF INFORMATION BETWEEN NCIC AND 
NAMUS. 
(a) SHARING OF INFORMATION.—Not later than the 
end of the 30-day period beginning on the date the online 
data entry format is updated under subsection (c), the At-
torney General shall, in accordance with this section, pro-
vide for information on missing persons and unidentified 
human remains contained in the NCIC database (as de-
fined in section 7) to be transmitted to, entered in, and 
otherwise shared with the NamUs databases (as defined 
in such section) and for such information contained in the 
NamUs databases to be transmitted to, entered in, and 
otherwise shared with the NCIC database. 
(b) RULES ON CONFIDENTIALITY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney 
General, in consultation with the Director of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation (in this Act referred 
to as the ‘‘FBI’’), shall promulgate rules pursuant 
to notice and comment that specify the information 
the Attorney General may provide from the NCIC 
files to the NamUs databases for purposes of this 
Act. Such rules shall— 
(A) provide for the protection of confiden-
tial, private, and law enforcement sensitive in-
formation contained in the NCIC files; 
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(B) be promulgated only after the Director 
approves recommendations by the Advisory Pol-
icy Board of the Criminal Justice Information 
Services Division of the FBI; 
(C) specify the circumstances in which por-
tions of information may be withheld from 
transfer, entry, or sharing from the NCIC data-
base to the NamUs databases; and 
(D) provide that once an authorized agen-
cy provides an authorization to permit the 
transmission, entering, or sharing of informa-
tion (or portions of information) from the 
NCIC database to the NamUs databases, such 
authorization shall be deemed to apply to any 
updates made to such information, unless other-
wise specified by the agency. 
In addition to promulgating such rules, the Attorney 
General, in consultation with the Director of the 
FBI, may also promulgate rules to further protect 
confidential, private, and law enforcement sensitive 
information, such as by creating process to permit 
an individual who is 21 years of age or older to 
proactively prohibit NamUs from creating a profile 
for the individual within the NamUs database if the 
individual were to go missing in the future, and to 
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permit an individual who is 21 years of age or older 
and who is voluntarily missing to request the re-
moval of a published profile of the individual from 
the NamUs database. 
(2) SUBMISSIONS
PRIOR
TO
ONLINE
DATA 
ENTRY FORMAT UPDATE.—With respect to informa-
tion submitted to the NCIC database before the end 
of the 30-day period specified in subsection (a), the 
Attorney General may solicit from appropriate au-
thorized agencies authorization to transmit, enter, or 
share such information. 
(c) UPDATES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney 
General shall update the online data entry format 
for the NCIC database and NamUs databases to 
provide State criminal justice agencies, offices of 
medical examiners, and offices of coroners with the 
option to authorize the submission of new informa-
tion and data that is reported to and entered into 
the NCIC database to simultaneously be submitted 
to and entered into the NamUs databases. 
(2) NCIC FORMAT.— 
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(A) IN
GENERAL.—In the case of the 
NCIC database, an update described in para-
graph (1) shall include— 
(i) an update to the NCIC database 
online data entry format that States use in 
submitting missing persons and unidenti-
fied remains reports, including the addition 
of a new data field allowing States, on be-
half of the authorized agency that origi-
nally submitted the data, to select whether 
or not to have the NCIC report, subject to 
the rules promulgated under subsection 
(b), shared with the NamUs databases; 
and 
(ii) subject to subparagraph (B), a re-
quirement that as a condition of partici-
pating in the NCIC database, States must 
update their missing persons and unidenti-
fied remains collection processes from local 
and tribal law enforcement, medical exam-
iners, and coroners to enable the States to 
acquire information on whether or not the 
authorized agencies originally submitting 
data with respect to a missing person or 
unidentified remains have provided author-
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