WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto issued the following press release:
To kick off Human Trafficking Awareness Month, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) is celebrating the passage of bipartisan legislation she cosponsored to help clear the criminal records of human trafficking survivors who were forced to commit nonviolent offenses as a result of being trafficked.
The Trafficking Survivors Relief Act, led by Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), passed both the House and the Senate unanimously in December. It now goes to the President's desk to be signed into law.
"Survivors of human trafficking deserve support along the path to healing," said Senator Cortez Masto. "It is unfair to ...