Union Calendar No. 135

103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 1152

[Report No. 103–244]

A BILL

To direct the United States Sentencing Commission

for hate crimes.nal cases that provide sentencing enhancementsto make sentencing guidelines for Federal crimiSEPTEMBER 21, 1993

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Commitordered to be printed tee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and
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Union Calendar No. 135

103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 1152

[Report No. 103–244]

To direct the United States Sentencing Commission to make sentencing

guidelines for Federal criminal cases that provide sentencing enhancements for hate crimes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

MARCH 1, 1993

Mr. SCHUMER (for himself, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. SCHIFF, Mrs.

SCHROEDER, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. SCOTT, Mr. GLICKMAN, Mr. HUGHES,

Mr. BERMAN, Mrs. KENNELLY, Mr. LANTOS, Mr. DEUTSCH, Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. STUDDS, Mr. LAROCCO, Mr.

WILLIAMS, Mr. FROST, Mr. MATSUI, Mr. REYNOLDS, Mr. OWENS, Mr.

APPLEGATE, Mrs. MALONEY, Mr. BARRETT of Wisconsin, Mrs. LOWEY,

Ms. PELOSI, Mr. DIXON, Mr. GUTIERREZ, Mr. MARTINEZ, Mrs. COLLINS

of Illinois, Mr. TUCKER, Mr. PASTOR, Mr. RUSH, Mr. STARK, Mr.

KLEIN, Mrs. MORELLA, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. TORRICELLI, Mr. WYNN, and

Ms. WOOLSEY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the

Committee on the Judiciary

SEPTEMBER 21, 1993

Additional sponsors: Mr. MAZZOLI, Mrs. MINK, Mr. MINGE, Mr. RANGEL, Mr.

COLEMAN, Mr. MFUME, Mr. GUNDERSON, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr.

KOPETSKI, Mr. EVANS, Mr. BEREUTER, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. BECERRA,

Mrs. MEEK, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. BLACKWELL, Mr. KILDEE, Ms. FURSE,

Ms. MCKINNEY, Ms. NORTON, Mr. SWETT, Mr. FAZIO, Ms. VELA ́ZQUEZ,

Mr. MANTON, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. LAZIO, Mr. MINETA, Mr. JOHNSTON

of Florida, Mr. GILMAN, Mr. SANGMEISTER, Mr. LEVY, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. FILNER, Mr. KLUG, and Mr. NADLER

SEPTEMBER 21, 1993

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
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[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 1, 1993]

A BILL

To direct the United States Sentencing Commission to make

sentencing guidelines for Federal criminal cases that provide sentencing enhancements for hate crimes.

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 ‘‘Hate Crimes Sentencing

5 Enhancement Act of 1993’’.

6 SEC. 2. DIRECTION TO COMMISSION.

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Pursuant to section 994 of title 28,

8 United States Code, the United States Sentencing Commis9 sion shall promulgate guidelines or amend existing guide10 lines to provide sentencing enhancements of not less than

11 3 offense levels for offenses that the finder of fact at trial

12 determines beyond a reasonable doubt are hate crimes. In

13 carrying out this section, the United States Sentencing

14 Commission shall assure reasonable consistency with other

15 guidelines, avoid duplicative punishments for substantially

16 the same offense, and take into account any mitigating cir17 cumstances which might justify exceptions.
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1 (b) DEFINITION.—As used in this Act, the term ‘‘hate

2 crime’’ is a crime in which the defendant intentionally se3 lects a victim, or in the case of a property crime, the prop4 erty which is the object of the crime, because of the actual

5 or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity,

6 gender, or sexual orientation of any person.