S5230: Billy's Law
117th Congress (2021–2023) · Senate bill · Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
This page covers S5230 in the 117th Congress. Bill numbers start over every Congress, so S5230 in another Congress is a different bill.
117th Congress (2021–2023) · Senate bill · Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
This page covers S5230 in the 117th Congress. Bill numbers start over every Congress, so S5230 in another Congress is a different bill.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Roll-call votes | 1 |
| Chamber | House |
| Latest vote | 2022-12-14: Passed |
| Latest action | 2022-12-27: Became Public Law No: 117-327. |
| Policy area | Crime and Law Enforcement |
| Official record | Congress.gov |
Billy's Law or the Help Find the Missing Act This act provides statutory authority for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to maintain the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) consistent with its existing purpose and structure. NamUs is a national information clearinghouse and resource center for cases involving missing persons and unidentified or unclaimed remains. NamUs is administered by the National Institute of Justice within DOJ. The act also establishes new requirements. First, it requires a law enforcement agency that submits a missing child report to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) to also submit the missing child report to NamUs. The NCIC is a computerized index of criminal justice data and files for reports of missing and unidentified persons. Current law requires law enforcement agencies to submit missing child reports to the NCIC database but not to the NamUs databases. Second, the act establishes requirements to facilitate data sharing between the NCIC database and the NamUs databases with respect to missing and unidentified persons. Specifically, the act requires DOJ to give the National Institute of Justice access to the NCIC missing person and unidentified person records for the purpose of validating cases and reconciling data with NamUs. Additionally, the act requires DOJ to assess the NCIC and NamUs systems and governing statutes, policies, and procedures and create a plan for NCIC to automatically transmit certain records to NamUs. Third, the act requires DOJ to report to forensic medicine service providers and law…
Subjects: Computers and information technology, Congressional oversight, Criminal justice information and records, Employee hiring, Government information and archives, Government studies and investigations, Intergovernmental relations, Law enforcement administration and funding, Missing persons, State and local government operations
Every recorded vote on this bill, newest first, with a link to the official tally. Member-by-member positions are on each member’s profile.
| Date | Chamber | Question | Result | Yea | Nay | Not voting | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-12-14 | House | 2/3 Yea-And-Nay | Passed | 295 | 3 | 1 | Official tally |
S5230 (Billy's Law) was introduced in the 117th Congress (2021–2023) by Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT].
On 2022-12-27: Became Public Law No: 117-327.
1 recorded vote in the 117th Congress. The most recent, on 2022-12-14, was "2/3 Yea-And-Nay": Passed.