Sec. 2. Authorization of the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System
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The Attorney General, through the Director of the National Institute of Justice, is authorized to maintain public databases, known as the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System or NamUs , to contain missing persons records and unidentified remains cases for purposes of assisting to identify missing people and solve cases of unidentified human remains. All functions, personnel, assets, liabilities, and administrative actions applicable to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System carried out by the National Institute of Justice on the date before the date of the enactment of this Act shall be transferred to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System authorized under this section as of the date of the enactment of this Act.
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section not more than a total of $2,400,000 for each of the fiscal years 2016 through 2021. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the total amount of Federal funds made available for any of the fiscal years 2016 through 2021 to maintain NamUs may not exceed the amount described in the previous sentence.