HR6688-118

Introduced

To permit grant funds to be used to identify unidentified human remains without regard as to whether the manner of death is determined to be a homicide.

118th Congress Introduced Dec 7, 2023

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, To permit grant funds to be used to identify unidentified human remains without regard as to whether the manner of death is determined to be a homicide., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users. The main policy domain is Environment, Immigration, Criminal Justice.

Who Benefits and How

environmental regulators and natural-resource users may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, environmental regulators and natural-resource users may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section HE3330F3F27FA47FCA50A91FE6C842E69: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Cold Case Modernization Act.
  • Section H03C8933CC525412883718E3DF34CB7DA: 2. Authorizing grant under Jennifer’s Law to be used on any unidentified remains Section 202(a)(1) of the Child Abuse Prevention and Enforcement Act (34 U.S.C....
  • Section H6CF7E6EBAC354131979E9FBDE4DBB233: 3. Department of Justice grants Any Department of Justice grant awarded to States and units of local government for forensic genetic geneaology may be used to...

Evidence Chain:

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At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, To permit grant funds to be used to identify unidentified human remains without regard as to whether the manner of death is determined to be a homicide., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Key Policy Areas

Environment, Immigration, Criminal Justice

Primary Purpose

This bill, To permit grant funds to be used to identify unidentified human remains without regard as to whether the manner of death is determined to be a homicide., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Policy Domains

Environment Immigration Criminal Justice

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • environmental regulators and natural-resource users
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environmental regulators and natural-resource users: ,
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • environmental regulators and natural-resource users
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federal implementing agencies: ,
environmental regulators and natural-resource users: ,

Legislative Progress

Introduced
Introduced Committee Passed
Dec 7, 2023

Mr. Reschenthaler introduced the following bill; which was referred to …

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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Environment Immigration Criminal Justice
Actor Mappings
"federal_implementing_agencies"
→ Federal agencies assigned duties by the bill

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