The Senate Judiciary Committee on Oct. 5, 2025, adopted a manager’s amendment and reported the TRACE Act to the Senate floor. The bill directs the attorney general to add data fields to the national missing and unidentified persons system indicating whether a missing person’s last known location was on federal land or in U.S. territorial waters.

Sponsor remarks: Committee members identified Senators Thom Tillis and Alex Padilla and Senator Richard Blumenthal as sponsors or co-sponsors of the bill during the markup. Senator Padilla joined remarks in support and the committee clerk adopted the manager’s amendment without objection.

Why it matters: Adding a structured field for federal-land or territorial-water last-known-location into the national missing-persons database aims to help law enforcement and search-and-rescue agencies allocate resources and coordinate across federal and state jurisdictions.

Action: Chairman Chuck Grassley called up the manager’s amendment (identified in the transcript as OLL25998) and, with no objection, the amendment was adopted and the TRACE Act was reported to the Senate floor for further consideration.