I 
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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Improving Reporting 
to Prevent Hate Act of 2024’’. 
SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO CREDIBLY REPORT HATE 
CRIMES. 
Section 505 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10156) is amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(j) EVALUATION
FOR
REPORTING
ON
HATE 
CRIMES.—Beginning not later than three years after the 
date of the enactment of this Act and from the data ac-
quired by the Attorney General in accordance with the 
Hate Crimes Statistics Act (34 U.S.C. 41305), the Attor-
ney General shall establish a method of evaluating and use 
such method to evaluate whether a covered jurisdiction 
has credibly reporting hate crimes, including whether, for 
each year, a covered jurisdiction— 
‘‘(1) has not reported hate crime data to the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation; or 
‘‘(2) has reported zero hate crime incidents to 
the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 
‘‘(k) ELIGIBILITY.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A covered jurisdiction that 
is found not to have credibly reported hate crimes 
following an evaluation pursuant to subsection (j) 
shall not be eligible for an allocation under this sec-
tion. 
‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—A covered jurisdiction that 
is found not to have credibly reported hate crimes 
following an evaluation pursuant to subsection (j) 
shall not be subject to a penalty under paragraph 
(1) if the Attorney General certifies that the covered 
jurisdiction has conducted significant community 
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hate crime public education and awareness initia-
tives. 
‘‘(l) ANNUAL REPORT.—Each year the Attorney Gen-
eral shall publish on the internet website of the Depart-
ment of Justice a report on the covered jurisdictions cer-
tified under subsection (k)(2). 
‘‘(m) SIGNIFICANT COMMUNITY HATE CRIME PUB-
LIC EDUCATION
AND AWARENESS INITIATIVES.—The 
term ‘significant community hate crime public education 
and awareness initiatives’ means that a covered jurisdic-
tion— 
‘‘(1) has— 
‘‘(A) made substantial progress towards 
comprehensive reporting hate crimes; 
‘‘(B) adopted a policy on identifying, inves-
tigating, and reporting hate crimes; and 
‘‘(C) developed a standardized system of 
collecting, analyzing, and reporting hate crimes 
to the National Incident-Based Reporting Sys-
tem of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; or 
‘‘(2) may— 
‘‘(A) establish a unit or liaison specialized 
in identifying, investigating, and reporting hate 
crimes and engaging in community relations 
functions related to preventing hate crimes; or 
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‘‘(B) conduct an ongoing and regular pub-
lic meetings or educational forums on the im-
pact of hate crimes, services available to victims 
of hate crimes, and any relevant Federal, State, 
or local laws related to hate crimes. 
‘‘(n) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) COVERED JURISDICTION.—The term ‘cov-
ered jurisdiction’ means a unit of local government 
that has a requested a grant under this subpart and 
has a population of over 100,000 people. 
‘‘(2) HATE
CRIME.—The term ‘hate crime’ 
means— 
‘‘(A) an act described in section 1(b)(1) of 
the Hate Crime Statistics Act ((34 U.S.C. 
41305(1)(b)(1)); and 
‘‘(B) an act in violation of sections 241, 
245, 247, or 249 of title 18, United States 
Code.’’. 
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