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S. 3966119th CongressLaw
TREY'S Law
Sponsored by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) · 20 active : 10 Republicans, 10 Democrats
Latest action: Held at the desk.
Where it standsBefore the Senate7 senators score as swing votes
Passed Senate
- Senate: passedMay 20, 2026
- House: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govTerminating Restrictive Enforcement of Youth Settlements Law or TREY'S Law
This bill limits the enforceability of nondisclosure clauses that prohibit the disclosure of sexual abuse against a minor.
Specifically, the bill makes a nondisclosure clause in a contract void and unenforceable to the extent that it prohibits (1) a victim or alleged victim of sexual abuse against a minor from disclosing the sexual abuse or facts related to it, or (2) any other person from disclosing facts related to the sexual abuse of a minor.
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These changes apply to any nondisclosure clause in a contract entered into before, on, or after this bill's date of enactment.
Further, the changes made by this bill supersede any state law to the extent the state law permits enforcement of a nondisclosure clause that prohibits the disclosure of sexual abuse against a minor.
How the projections held up
Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.
Senate
Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent: no individual votes recorded.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Assault and harassment offenses
- Contracts and agency
- Crime victims
- Crimes against children
- Human trafficking
- Sex offenses
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 7Swing 70–100
- 52Middle 30–70
- 41Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
20 activeShow all 20 cosponsors
- Eric Schmitt (R-MO)
- Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL)
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Peter Welch (D-VT)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Josh Hawley (R-MO)
- Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Ashley Moody (R-FL)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
- Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
- John Kennedy (R-LA)
- Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
- Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)
- Thomas Tillis
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
