119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1038
AN ACT
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.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Tracking and Reporting Absent Community-Members Everywhere Act
or the TRACE Act
.
Definitions
In this Act:
Attorney General
The term Attorney General means the Attorney General, acting through the Director of the National Institute of Justice.
Federal land
The term Federal land means land owned by the United States that is under the administrative jurisdiction of—
the Secretary of Agriculture;
the Secretary 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 administered by the Corps of Engineers.
Territorial waters of the United States
The term territorial waters of the United States means all waters of the territorial sea of the United States, 12 nautical miles wide, adjacent to the coast of the United States and seaward of the territorial baseline, as described in Presidential Proclamation 5928 of December 27, 1988.
Data field in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System related to Federal land and territorial waters
The Attorney General shall include in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System a data field to indicate whether the last known location of the missing person was confirmed or was suspected to have been on Federal land or in the territorial waters of the United States, including any specific location details about the unit of Federal land or the area of the territorial waters of the United States that was the last known location of the missing person.
Report
Not later than January 15 of the second calendar year that begins after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report that contains, for the previous calendar year, the number of cases in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System for which the missing person’s last known location was confirmed or was suspected to have been on Federal land or in the territorial waters of the United States.
Passed the Senate September 2, 2025.
Secretary