SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) On December 7, 2008, Jose Sucuzhan˜ay, an 
Ecuadorian-born real estate agent and father of two, 
was beaten to death in Brooklyn while walking with 
his brother, who was visiting from Ecuador. Three 
men with baseball bats attacked the brothers while 
shouting anti-gay and anti-Hispanic slurs. 
(2) Marcelo Lucero, 37 years of age, came to 
the United States from Ecuador in 1993. He settled 
in Patchogue, New York, a middle-class village in 
central Long Island. He worked in a dry cleaning 
store and sent his savings home to his mother, a 
cancer survivor, whom he had not seen since he left 
16 years ago. On the night of November 8, 2008, 
shortly before midnight, seven teenagers got out of 
their car and taunted Lucero with racist slurs as he 
walked home. They then beat and murdered Marcelo 
Lucero. According to the indictment, the boys set 
out that night to find someone of Hispanic heritage 
to assault. 
(3) The number of hate groups in the United 
States has increased by 54 percent over the past 8 
years. 
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(4) In 2008, the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion reported a 6 percent rise in the number of hate 
crimes against gay, lesbian, and transgender people. 
(5) According to the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation, attacks on Hispanics grew 40 percent from 
2003 to 2007, even though the Hispanic population 
only grew 16 percent in the same time period and 
the total number of hate crimes has remained 
steady. 
SEC. 3. NATIONAL HATE CRIME HOTLINE AND HATE CRIME 
INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE WEBSITE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General may award 
one or more grants to private, nonprofit entities— 
(1) to provide for the establishment and oper-
ation of a national, toll-free telephone hotline to pro-
vide information and assistance to victims of hate 
crimes (hereafter in this section referred to as the 
‘‘national hate crime hotline’’; and 
(2) to provide for the establishment and oper-
ation of a highly secure Internet website to provide 
that information and assistance to such victims 
(hereafter in this section referred to as the ‘‘hate 
crime information and assistance website’’). 
(b) DURATION.—A grant under this section may ex-
tend over a period of not more than 5 years. 
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(c) ANNUAL APPROVAL.—The provision of payments 
under a grant awarded under this section shall be subject 
to annual approval by the Attorney General and subject 
to the availability of appropriations for each fiscal year 
to make the payments. 
(d) HOTLINE ACTIVITIES.—An entity that receives a 
grant under this section for activities described, in whole 
or in part, in subsection (a)(1) shall use funds made avail-
able through the grant to establish and operate a national 
hate crime hotline. In establishing and operating the hot-
line, the entity shall— 
(1) contract with a carrier for the use of a toll- 
free telephone line; 
(2) employ, train, (including technology train-
ing), and supervise personnel to answer incoming 
calls and provide counseling and referral services to 
callers on a 24-hour-a-day basis; 
(3) assemble and maintain a current database 
of information relating to services for victims of hate 
crimes to which callers throughout the United States 
may be referred; 
(4) publicize the national hate crime hotline to 
potential users throughout the United States; and 
(5) be prohibited from asking hotline callers 
about their citizenship status. 
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(e) SECURE WEBSITE ACTIVITIES.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—An entity that receives a 
grant under this section for activities described, in 
whole or in part, in subsection (a)(2) shall use funds 
made available through the grant to provide grants 
for startup and operational costs associated with es-
tablishing and operating a hate crime information 
and assistance website. 
(2) AVAILABILITY.—The hate crime informa-
tion and assistance website shall be available to the 
entity operating the national hate crime hotline. 
(3) INFORMATION.—The hate crime informa-
tion and assistance website shall provide accurate in-
formation that describes the services available to vic-
tims of hate crimes, including health care and men-
tal health services, social services, transportation, 
and other relevant services. 
(4) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this 
section shall be construed to require any shelter or 
service provider, whether public or private, to be 
linked to the hate crime information and assistance 
website or to provide information to the recipient of 
the grant described in paragraph (1) or to the 
website. 
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(f) APPLICATION.—The Attorney General may not 
award a grant under this section unless the Attorney Gen-
eral approves an application for such grant. To be ap-
proved by the Attorney General under this subsection an 
application shall— 
(1) contain such agreements, assurances, and 
information, be in such form, and be submitted in 
such manner, as the Attorney General shall pre-
scribe through notice in the Federal Register; 
(2) in the case of an application for a grant to 
carry out activities described in subsection (a)(1), in-
clude a complete description of the applicant’s plan 
for the operation of a national hate crime hotline, in-
cluding descriptions of— 
(A) the training program for hotline per-
sonnel, including technology training to ensure 
that all persons affiliated with the hotline are 
able to effectively operate any technological sys-
tems used by the hotline; 
(B) the hiring criteria for hotline per-
sonnel; 
(C) the methods for the creation, mainte-
nance, and updating of a resource database; 
(D) a plan for publicizing the availability 
of the hotline; 
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