WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith issued the following news release:
U.S. Senators Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) today celebrated the enactment of their legislation to allow nonviolent offenses to be vacated or expunged from the record of survivors of human trafficking who were forced to commit criminal acts by their traffickers.
The Trafficking Survivors Relief Act (S.2255(https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2255/text) /HR.4323 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4323)) was signed into law (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/01/congressional-bill-h-r-4323-and-h-r-6938-signed-into-law/) by President Trump on Friday after passing both the Se...