Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. 2617) shall be the rem-
edies and procedures pursuant to which an em-
ployee may initiate a legal action against an 
employer for alleged violations of this sub-
section. 
(C) EMPLOYER LIABILITY UNDER OTHER 
LAWS.—Nothing in this section shall be con-
strued to limit the liability pursuant to any 
other State or Federal law or legal remedy of 
an employer to an employee for harm suffered 
relating to the employee’s experience as a victim 
of a hate crime. 
SEC. 104. TEMPORARY HOUSING ASSISTANCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development (hereafter in this section referred to 
as the ‘‘Secretary’’) may award grants to qualified organi-
zations (as determined by the Secretary) under this sec-
tion to carry out programs to provide assistance— 
(1) to individuals— 
(A) who are victims of a hate crime; 
(B) homeless or in need of transitional 
housing or other housing assistance as a result 
of being a victim of a hate crime; and 
(C) for whom emergency shelter services 
are unavailable or insufficient; and 
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(2) dependents of individuals described in para-
graph (1). 
(b) ASSISTANCE DESCRIBED.—Assistance provided 
under this section may include— 
(1) short-term housing assistance, including 
rent, utilities payments assistance, and assistance 
with related expenses, such as payment of security 
deposits and other costs incidental to relocation to 
transitional housing; and 
(2) support services designed to enable an indi-
vidual or dependents of such individual to locate and 
secure permanent housing, and to integrate the indi-
vidual or dependents of such individual into a com-
munity, such as transportation, counseling, child 
care services, case management, employment coun-
seling, and other assistance. 
(c) APPLICATION.—To be eligible to receive a grant 
under this section for any fiscal year, a qualified organiza-
tion shall submit an application to the Secretary in such 
form and containing such information as the Secretary 
may require. 
(d) REPORTS.— 
(1) REPORT TO SECRETARY.—An entity that 
receives a grant under this section shall annually 
prepare and submit to the Secretary a report de-
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scribing the number of individuals and dependents 
assisted, and the types of housing assistance and 
support services provided under this section. Each 
report shall include information on the purpose and 
amount of housing assistance provided to each indi-
vidual or dependent assisted under this section, and 
the type of support services provided to each indi-
vidual or dependent assisted under this section. 
(2) REPORT
TO
CONGRESS.—The Secretary 
shall annually prepare and submit to Congress a re-
port that contains a compilation of the information 
contained in reports submitted under paragraph (1). 
(e) SUPPLEMENT NOT SUPPLANT.—Funds made 
available under this section shall supplement, and not sup-
plant, other Federal, State, or local funds available to an 
entity to carry out activities described in this section. 
(f) DEFINITION OF HATE CRIME.—For purposes of 
this section, the term ‘‘hate crime’’ means a criminal of-
fense in which the prosecutor has determined that the de-
fendant intentionally selected a victim, or in the case of 
a property crime, the property that is the object of the 
crime, because of the actual or perceived race, color, reli-
gion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, or sex-
ual orientation of any person. 
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(g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2015. 
SEC. 105. COUNSELING GRANT PROGRAM. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION
AND
ESTABLISHMENT
OF 
GRANT PROGRAM.—The Attorney General may award 
grants to qualified organizations (as determined by the At-
torney General) to assist in the establishment, mainte-
nance, and expansion of programs and projects to provide 
counseling and related assistance to victims of hate crimes 
and their dependents. 
(b) APPLICATION.—To be eligible to receive a grant 
under this section for any fiscal year, a qualified organiza-
tion shall submit an application to the Attorney General 
in such form and containing such information as the At-
torney General may require. 
(c) USE OF GRANT FUNDS.—The grant funds pro-
vided under this section shall be used to carry out pro-
grams and projects that provide counseling and related as-
sistance to victims of hate crimes and their dependents. 
(d) SUPPLEMENT NOT SUPPLANT.—Funds made 
available under this section shall supplement, and not sup-
plant, other Federal, State, or local funds available to an 
entity to carry out activities described in this section. 
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(e) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this sec-
tion— 
(1) the term ‘‘counseling’’ includes emergency, 
short-term, long-term, individual, and group coun-
seling services; and 
(2) the term ‘‘related assistance’’ includes— 
(A) assistance with respect to obtaining fi-
nancial assistance under Federal and State pro-
grams; 
(B) referrals for appropriate health care 
services; 
(C) legal assistance to provide victims of 
hate crimes with information and assistance 
through the civil and criminal courts; and 
(D) other supportive services, as deter-
mined to be appropriate by the Attorney Gen-
eral. 
(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2015. 
TITLE II—RESOURCES 
SEC. 201. NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE AND RESOURCE 
CENTER. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT
OF
NATIONAL
CLEARING-
HOUSE.—The Attorney General may award a grant to a 
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