S 5029
117th Congress
Senate
Crime and Law Enforcement
Billy’s Law
Introduced: September 29, 2022
Introduced by:
Murphy, Christopher
Democratic
· Connecticut
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Sep 29, 2022
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Sep 29, 2022
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Billy's Law or the Help Find the Missing Act
This bill provides statutory authority for the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) and requires certain data sharing between databases of the National Crime Information Center and NamUs. It also provides for grants to state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies to support reporting to these systems.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Committees of jurisdiction
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