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S. 1038119th CongressCrime and Law Enforcement
TRACE Act
Sponsored by Sen. Thomas Tillis (R-NC) · 5 active : 1 Republican, 4 Democrats
Latest action: Held at the desk.
Where it standsBefore the Senate6 senators score as swing votes
Passed Senate
- Senate: passedSep 2, 2025
- House: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govTracking and Reporting Absent Community-Members Everywhere Act or the TRACE Act
This bill requires the National Institute of Justice to include in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) an additional data field for information about whether the last known location of a missing person was on federal land or in the territorial waters of the United States.
NamUs is a national information clearinghouse and resource center for cases involving missing persons and unidentified or unclaimed remains.
How the projections held up
Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.
Senate
Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent: no individual votes recorded.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Computers and information technology
- Congressional oversight
- Criminal justice information and records
- Government information and archives
- Missing persons
How the Senate breaks down
- 6Swing 70–100
- 62Middle 30–70
- 32Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
5 activeShow all 5 cosponsors
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Christopher Murphy (D-CT)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
