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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 Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Tracking and Report-
ing Absent Community-Members Everywhere Act’’ or the 
‘‘TRACE Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. DATA FIELD IN THE NATIONAL MISSING AND UN-
IDENTIFIED 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 miss-
ing 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 per-
son, whether the remains were located on Federal 
land, including any specific location details about the 
unit of Federal land on which the remains were lo-
cated. 
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 
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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 lo-
cated 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 administra-
tive jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Sec-
retary 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 ad-
ministered by the Army Corps of Engineers. 
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