Increasing participation in the eTrace program

(a) In general The Secretary of State, in coordination with the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, shall seek to work with national and sub-national law enforcement authorities of countries designated as covered countries under section 7 in order to increase participation by such authorities in the eTrace program. (b) Report Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the implementation of subsection (a) and on the number of firearms traced to a purchase or export that resulted in Federal investigations and prosecutions. (c) Haiti The Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives shall ensure that the eTrace program is available in the French and Haitian Creole languages for the purposes of improving the use of the program by law enforcement authorities in Haiti. (d) Authorization of appropriation Amounts authorized to be appropriated under chapter 8 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (relating to international narcotics control assistance) are authorized to be made available to carry out this section. (e) Definition of eTrace program In this section, the term eTrace program means the web-based firearms tracing system of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that is available to accredited domestic and international law enforcement agencies to assist in the tracing of United States-sourced firearms.