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S.2840: Help Find the Missing Act
About This Bill
- Introduced Sept. 17, 2014
- Latest Major Action Sept. 17, 2014
- See the four similar bills introduced in other congresses.
Bill Sponsor
Bill Cosponsors
3 (All Democrats)
Bill Summary
Billy's Law or the Help Find the Missing Act - Authorizes the Attorney General, through the Director of the National Institute of Justice, to maintain public databases containing missing persons records and unidentified remains cases, to be known as the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System or NamUs, for purposes of assisting in identifying missing people and solving cases of unidentified human remains. Transfers all functions,...
(Source: Library of Congress)
Bill Actions
Date | Description |
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Sept. 17, 2014 |
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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Sept. 17, 2014 |
Introduced in the Senate by Christopher S. Murphy (D-Conn.) |