House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
TRACE Act
Official title: 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.
Sponsor: Rep. Joe Neguse D-COWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 14, 2025
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 14, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2150.
- 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. 171, No. 49, March 14, 2025, Page H1163):Article I, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 14, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2150, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2150
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 9, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 11, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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 September 9, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
14 cosponsors — 8 Republicans, 5 Democrats, 1 independent
9 of 14 cosponsors (64%) are from the other party.
Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Tim Burchett (R-TN), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Robin Kelly (D-IL), Kevin Kiley (I-CA), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Lucy McBath (D-GA), James Moylan (R-GU), Troy Nehls (R-TX), Emily Randall (D-WA), John Rutherford (R-FL), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Joe Neguse.
- H.R. 3922 (119th) Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act
- H.R. 1729 (119th) Bolts Ditch Act
- H.Res. 22 (119th) Electing Members to certain standing committees of the House of Representatives.
- H.R. 744 (119th) Disaster Management Costs Modernization Act
- H.R. 3924 (119th) Wildfire Risk Evaluation Act
- H.J.Res. 122 (119th) Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the authority of Congress and the States to regulate…
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.