S 2105 114th Congress Senate Crime and Law Enforcement Administrative law and regulatory procedures Child safety and welfare Crimes against children Criminal justice information and records Department of Justice Evidence and witnesses Government information and archives Law enforcement administration and funding

Billy's Law

Introduced: September 30, 2015 Introduced by: Murphy, Christopher Democratic · Connecticut See on congress.gov

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Sep 30, 2015

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Billy's Law or the Help Find the Missing Act

This bill authorizes the Department of Justice (DOJ), through the National Institute of Justice, to maintain public databases, known as the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), of missing persons and unidentified remains.

It requires DOJ to facilitate information sharing between the NamUs databases and the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database. DOJ must update the online data entry format to allow criminal justice agencies, medical examiners, and coroners to simultaneously submit information to NamUs and NCIC. DOJ must also promulgate rules that protect confidential, private, and law enforcement sensitive information.

The bill amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to require a law enforcement agency that submits a missing child report to NCIC to also submit such missing child report to NamUs.

It directs DOJ to establish a program to award matching grants to law enforcement agencies, coroners, and medical examiners to facilitate information reporting to the NCIC database and NamUs databases to help locate missing persons and identify unidentified remains.

DOJ must report: (1) to medical examiners, coroners, and law enforcement agencies on best practices for data collection and analysis; and (2) to Congress on the status of the NCIC database and NamUs databases.

What's happening now September 30, 2015

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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