Sec. 6. Annual reporting requirements

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Beginning in the first fiscal year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall include in its annual Indian Country Investigations and Prosecutions report to Congress information that— includes known statistics on missing Indians in the United States, available to the Department of Justice, including— age; gender; Tribal enrollment information or affiliation, if available; the current number of open cases per State; the total number of closed cases per State each calendar year, from the most recent 10 calendar years; and other relevant information the Attorney General determines is appropriate; includes known statistics on murdered Indians in the United States, available to the Department of Justice, including— age; gender;

Tribal enrollment information or affiliation, if available; the current number of open cases per State; the total number of closed cases per State each calendar year, from the most recent 10 calendar years; and other relevant information the Attorney General determines is appropriate; maintains victim privacy to the greatest extent possible by excluding information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context; and includes— an explanation of why the statistics described in paragraph

(1)may not be comprehensive; and recommendations on how data collection on missing and murdered Indians may be improved. Beginning in the first fiscal year after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, for the purpose of compiling accurate data for the annual report required under subsection (a), the Attorney General shall request all Tribal, State, and local law enforcement agencies to submit to the Department of Justice, to the fullest extent possible, all relevant information required, as determined by the Attorney General. The Attorney General shall disclose and publish annually, including on the website of the Department of Justice, the name of each Tribal, State, or local law enforcement agency that the Attorney General has determined has not submitted the information requested under paragraph

(1)for the fiscal year in which the report was published. For each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023, for the fiscal year in which a grant was solicited, the Attorney General shall give affirmative preference to all Department of Justice discretionary grant applications of a Tribal, State, or local law enforcement agency, or applications submitted on behalf of such law enforcement agencies by a local, State, or Tribal government, that would aid in the implementation of the guidelines developed under section 5 or help address the issue of missing and murdered Indians, if the Attorney General has determined the agency has submitted the information requested under paragraph

(1)for the fiscal year in which the report was published. Beginning in the first calendar year after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall include gender in its annual statistics on missing and unidentified persons published on its public website.