TRACE Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3868.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. NEGUSE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 98, June 6, 2023, Page H2764):
  Article I, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: 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.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 6, 2023 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  323 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 3868, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/3868

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  June 23, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6d4d3e3ae7377b6a18cb7a22f66cab8ad8529ae926bef91aaefb3eff0bec0989

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of June 23, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 3868, last updated June 23, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.