The U.S. Senate passed TREY’S Law. Now, the House must act!
Thank you for standing with Kanakuk survivors. When you signed this petition, you joined survivors in asking Kanakuk to release victims from their non-disclosure agreements so they could heal, connect with one another and set truth free. Back then, only a couple of states protected survivors from being silenced with NDAs in civil settlement agreements (CA and TN). Today, seven states have enacted versions of Trey’s Law, and Senators Cruz and Gillibrand introduced a federal bill (S.3966) to U.S. Congress that would release survivors from these NDAs nationwide is one House vote away from the President’s desk.
Help us take TREY’S Law nationwide!
Texas, Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama, California, Louisiana and Georgia have all enacted versions of Trey’s Law. In Congress, the federal bill, TREY’S Law (S. 3966), passed the U.S. Senate by unanimous consent on May 20, 2026. Not one Senator objected in committee or on the Senate floor. It is rare for such bipartisan, unanimous support to happen in Washington!
We need your help with momentum. Now, it’s time for the U.S. House of Representatives to ACT before this Congress concludes at the end of the year. If the House doesn’t act on this unanimous Senate bill before this session ends, the bill expires and the whole process has to start over again next year.
House leadership needs to hear from Representatives in both parties that TREY’S Law should be a priority, and Representatives need to hear it from their constituents first.
What would the federal version of TREY’S Law do?
It would make any NDA provisions in civil settlement agreements void and unenforceable in cases of child sexual abuse and/or trafficking. Survivors would no longer have to wait for an institution to release them from NDAs. TREY’s Law would end the abusive practice of NDAs in these cases as a matter of public safety and a violation of free speech.
This bill is named for Trey Carlock who was abused for over a decade by a serial sex offender named Pete Newman, director at Kanakuk Kamps. After a retraumatizing civil lawsuit, he was silenced by a settlement NDA so restrictive that he was afraid to speak about his abuse even in therapeutic settings. Being silenced was institutional abuse on top of the horrific sexual abuse. TREY’S Law would ensure that no survivor, from Kanakuk or elsewhere, is ever contractually silenced again, regardless of which state they live in and regardless of when the abuse occurred.
How you can help in 60 seconds
Contact your U.S. Representative
Click the link above, and our advocacy system will identify your current U.S. Representative and generate a message asking them to urge House leadership to bring TREY’S Law (S.3966) to a House floor vote under suspension of the rules before the end of the year. The pre-written message is ready to send as-is, or you can add a sentence about why this matters to you. Either way, it’s one of the most effective things you can do for survivors right now. Taking action also signs you up for future Trey’s Law updates and advocacy alerts. Let’s give victims their voices back!
The Senate has spoken. Now we need the House, and we need you.