---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 40505"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "40505"
heading: "Reporting on National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) Program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/40505"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Criminal Records and Information"
  - "Chapter 405 — Reporting of Unidentified and Missing Persons"
---

# §40505. Reporting on National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) Program


Not later than 18 months after December 31, 2020, and every year thereafter, the Attorney General shall submit a report to the appropriate committees of Congress regarding—

- (1) the number of unidentified person cases processed;
- (2) CODIS associations and identifications;
- (3) the number of anthropology cases processed;
- (4) the number of suspected border crossing cases and associations made;
- (5) the number of trials supported with expert testimony;
- (6) the number of students trained and professions of those students; and
- (7) the turnaround time and backlog.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–277, § 4, Dec. 31, 2020, 134 Stat. 3370.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains Act of 2019, and not as part of Jennifer’s Law which comprises this chapter.