Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Passed Senate
TRACE Act
Official title: 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.
Sponsor: Sen. Thomas Tillis R-NCWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 13, 2025
- Committee actionJul 24, 2025
- Passed SenateSep 2, 2025 · by unanimous consent
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 4, 2025 — Held at the desk.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 1038.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 1038, TRACE Act” on September 24, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As passed by the Senate on September 2, 2025”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 24, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61761
- CBO publication date
- September 24, 2025
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 1038, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/1038
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 10, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of August 10, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for S. 1038, last updated August 10, 2026. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 13, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
5 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 4 Democrats
4 of 5 cosponsors (80%) are from the other party.
Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Shelley Capito (R-WV), Christopher Coons (D-DE), Christopher Murphy (D-CT), Alex Padilla (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
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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.