‘‘(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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public education and awareness initiatives on hate 
crimes. 
‘‘(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) 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. 
‘‘(3) SIGNIFICANT
COMMUNITY
PUBLIC
EDU-
CATION
AND
AWARENESS
INITIATIVES
ON
HATE 
CRIMES.—The term ‘significant community public 
education and awareness initiatives on hate crimes’ 
means that a covered jurisdiction— 
‘‘(A) has— 
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‘‘(i) made substantial progress to-
wards 
comprehensive 
reporting 
hate 
crimes; 
‘‘(ii) adopted a policy on identifying, 
investigating, and reporting hate crimes; 
and 
‘‘(iii) developed a standardized system 
of collecting, analyzing, and reporting hate 
crimes to the National Incident-Based Re-
porting System of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation; or 
‘‘(B) may— 
‘‘(i) establish a unit or liaison special-
ized in identifying, investigating, and re-
porting hate crimes and engaging in com-
munity relations functions related to pre-
venting hate crimes; or 
‘‘(ii) conduct an ongoing and regular 
public meetings or educational forums on 
the impact of hate crimes, services avail-
able to victims of hate crimes, and any rel-
evant Federal, State, or local laws related 
to hate crimes.’’. 
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