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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 7648 

To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 

include certain reporting to the uniform crime reporting program. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 13, 2024 

Mr. BEYER (for himself and Mr. BACON) introduced the following bill; which 

was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 

Act of 1968 to include certain reporting to the uniform 

crime reporting program. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Improving Reporting 

5 to Prevent Hate Act of 2024’’. 

6 SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO CREDIBLY REPORT HATE 

7 CRIMES. 

8 Section 505 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 

9 Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10156) is amended by 

10 adding at the end the following: 


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1 ‘‘(j) EVALUATION FOR REPORTING ON HATE

2 CRIMES.—Beginning not later than three years after the 

3 date of the enactment of this Act and from the data ac4 quired by the Attorney General in accordance with the 

5 Hate Crimes Statistics Act (34 U.S.C. 41305), the Attor6 ney General shall establish a method of evaluating and use 

7 such method to evaluate whether a covered jurisdiction 

8 has credibly reporting hate crimes, including whether, for 

9 each year, a covered jurisdiction— 

10 ‘‘(1) has not reported hate crime data to the 

11 Federal Bureau of Investigation; or 

12 ‘‘(2) has reported zero hate crime incidents to 

13 the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 

14 ‘‘(k) ELIGIBILITY.— 

15 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A covered jurisdiction that 

16 is found not to have credibly reported hate crimes 

17 following an evaluation pursuant to subsection (j) 

18 shall not be eligible for an allocation under this sec19 tion. 

20 ‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—A covered jurisdiction that 

21 is found not to have credibly reported hate crimes 

22 following an evaluation pursuant to subsection (j) 

23 shall not be subject to a penalty under paragraph 

24 (1) if the Attorney General certifies that the covered 

25 jurisdiction has conducted significant community 


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1 hate crime public education and awareness initia2 tives. 

3 ‘‘(l) ANNUAL REPORT.—Each year the Attorney Gen4 eral shall publish on the internet website of the Depart5 ment of Justice a report on the covered jurisdictions cer6 tified under subsection (k)(2). 

7 ‘‘(m) SIGNIFICANT COMMUNITY HATE CRIME PUB8 LIC EDUCATION AND AWARENESS INITIATIVES.—The 

9 term ‘significant community hate crime public education 

10 and awareness initiatives’ means that a covered jurisdic11 tion— 

12 ‘‘(1) has— 

13 ‘‘(A) made substantial progress towards 

14 comprehensive reporting hate crimes; 

15 ‘‘(B) adopted a policy on identifying, inves16 tigating, and reporting hate crimes; and 

17 ‘‘(C) developed a standardized system of 

18 collecting, analyzing, and reporting hate crimes 

19 to the National Incident-Based Reporting Sys20 tem of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; or 

21 ‘‘(2) may— 

22 ‘‘(A) establish a unit or liaison specialized 

23 in identifying, investigating, and reporting hate 

24 crimes and engaging in community relations 

25 functions related to preventing hate crimes; or 


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1 ‘‘(B) conduct an ongoing and regular pub2 lic meetings or educational forums on the im3 pact of hate crimes, services available to victims 

4 of hate crimes, and any relevant Federal, State, 

5 or local laws related to hate crimes. 

6 ‘‘(n) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

7 ‘‘(1) COVERED JURISDICTION.—The term ‘cov8 ered jurisdiction’ means a unit of local government 

9 that has a requested a grant under this subpart and 

10 has a population of over 100,000 people. 

11 ‘‘(2) HATE CRIME.—The term ‘hate crime’ 

12 means— 

13 ‘‘(A) an act described in section 1(b)(1) of 

14 the Hate Crime Statistics Act ((34 U.S.C. 

15 41305(1)(b)(1)); and 

16 ‘‘(B) an act in violation of sections 241, 

17 245, 247, or 249 of title 18, United States 

18 Code.’’. 

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