---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 40508"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "40508"
heading: "Report to Congress"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/40508"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Criminal Records and Information"
  - "Chapter 405 — Reporting of Unidentified and Missing Persons"
---

# §40508. Report to Congress

- (a) **In general—** Not later than 1 year after December 27, 2022, and biennially thereafter, the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a report describing the status of the NCIC database and NamUs databases.
- (b) **Contents—** The report required by [subsection (a)](#a) shall describe, to the extent available, information on the process of information sharing between the NCIC database and NamUs databases.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–327, § 5, Dec. 27, 2022, 136 Stat. 4457.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of Billy’s Law, also known as the Help Find the Missing Act, and not as part of Jennifer’s Law which comprises this chapter.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Definitions

For definitions of “NCIC database” and “NamUs databases” as used in this section, see section 6 of Pub. L. 117–327, set out as a note under section 40506 of this title.