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hold is considered low-income for the purposes 
of this section; and 
(B) for the purposes of income eligibility, 
accept proof of job loss or severe income loss 
dated after February 29, 2020, such as a layoff 
or furlough notice or verification of application 
of unemployment benefits, as sufficient to dem-
onstrate lack of income for an individual or 
household. 
(f) APPLICATIONS.—Each State or Indian Tribe de-
siring to receive a grant under this section shall submit 
an application to the Secretary, in such form as the Sec-
retary shall require. 
(g) UTILITY RESPONSIBILITIES.—Owners or opera-
tors of public water systems or treatment works receiving 
funds pursuant to this section for the purposes of reducing 
rates charged to low-income households for service shall— 
(1) conduct outreach activities designed to en-
sure that such households are made aware of the 
rate assistance available pursuant to this section; 
(2) charge such households, in the normal bill-
ing process, not more than the difference between 
the actual cost of the service provided and the 
amount of the payment made by the State or Indian 
Tribe pursuant to this section; and
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(3) within 45 days of providing assistance to a 
household pursuant to this section, notify in writing 
such household of the amount of such assistance. 
(h) STATE AGREEMENTS WITH DRINKING WATER 
AND WASTEWATER PROVIDERS.—To the maximum extent 
practicable, a State that receives a grant under this sec-
tion shall enter into agreements with owners and operators 
of public water systems, owners and operators of treat-
ment works, municipalities, nonprofit organizations asso-
ciated with providing drinking water, wastewater, and 
other social services to rural and small communities, and 
Indian Tribes, to assist in identifying low-income house-
holds and to carry out this section. 
(i) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—A State or Indian 
Tribe that receives a grant under this section may use up 
to 8 percent of the granted amounts for administrative 
costs. 
(j) FEDERAL AGENCY COORDINATION.—In carrying 
out this section, the Secretary shall coordinate with the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
and consult with other Federal agencies with authority 
over the provision of drinking water and wastewater serv-
ices. 
(k) AUDITS.—The Secretary shall require each State 
and Indian Tribe receiving a grant under this section to
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undertake periodic audits and evaluations of expenditures 
made by such State or Indian Tribe pursuant to this sec-
tion. 
(l) REPORTS TO CONGRESS.—The Secretary shall 
submit to Congress a report on the results of activities 
carried out pursuant to this section— 
(1) not later than 1 year after the date of en-
actment of this section; and 
(2) upon disbursement of all funds appropriated 
pursuant to this section. 
(m) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) INDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘‘Indian Tribe’’ 
means any Indian Tribe, band, group, or community 
recognized by the Secretary of the Interior and exer-
cising governmental authority over a Federal Indian 
reservation. 
(2) MUNICIPALITY.—The term ‘‘municipality’’ 
has the meaning given such term in section 502 of 
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1362). 
(3) PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY.—The term 
‘‘public health emergency’’ means the public health 
emergency described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) of the 
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320b–5).
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(4) PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM.—The term ‘‘public 
water system’’ has the meaning given such term in 
section 1401 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300f). 
(5) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services. 
(6) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means a State, 
the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of 
Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, 
Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of 
the Northern Mariana Islands. 
(7) TREATMENT WORKS.—The term ‘‘treatment 
works’’ has the meaning given that term in section 
212 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1292). 
SEC. 190704. HOME WATER SERVICE CONTINUITY. 
(a) CONTINUITY OF SERVICE.—Any entity receiving 
financial assistance under division A of this Act shall, to 
the maximum extent practicable, establish or maintain in 
effect policies to ensure that, with respect to any service 
provided by a public water system or treatment works to 
an occupied residence, which service is provided or regu-
lated by such entity—
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(1) no such service is or remains disconnected 
or interrupted during the emergency period because 
of nonpayment; 
(2) all reconnections of such service are con-
ducted in a manner that minimizes risk to the health 
of individuals receiving such service; and 
(3) no fees for late payment of bills for such 
service are charged or accrue during the emergency 
period. 
(b) EFFECT.—Nothing in this section shall be con-
strued to require forgiveness of outstanding debt owed to 
an entity or to absolve an individual of any obligation to 
an entity for service. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) EMERGENCY
PERIOD.—The term ‘‘emer-
gency period’’ means the emergency period described 
in section 1135(g)(1)(B) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1320b–5). 
(2) PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM.—The term ‘‘public 
water system’’ has the meaning given such term in 
section 1401 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300f). 
(3) TREATMENT WORKS.—The term ‘‘treatment 
works’’ has the meaning given that term in section
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212 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1292). 
TITLE 
VIII—DEATH 
AND 
DIS-
ABILITY BENEFITS FOR PUB-
LIC 
SAFETY 
OFFICERS 
IM-
PACTED BY COVID–19 
SEC. 190801. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Public Safety Officer 
Pandemic Response Act of 2020’’. 
SEC. 190802. DEATH AND DISABILITY BENEFITS FOR PUB-
LIC SAFETY OFFICERS IMPACTED BY COVID– 
19. 
Section 1201 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10281) is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(o) For purposes of this part: 
‘‘(1) COVID–19 shall be presumed to constitute 
a personal injury within the meaning of subsection 
(a), sustained in the line of duty by a public safety 
officer and directly and proximately resulting in 
death, unless such officer is shown to have per-
formed no line of duty activity or action within the 
45 days immediately preceding a diagnosis of, or 
positive test for COVID–19.
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‘‘(2) The Attorney General shall accept claims, 
including supplemental claims, under this section 
from an individual who— 
‘‘(A) was serving as a public safety officer 
and was injured or disabled in the line of duty 
as a result of the terrorist attacks on the 
United States that occurred on September 11, 
2001, or in the aftermath of such attacks devel-
oped a condition described in section 3312(a) of 
the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
300mm–22(a)); and 
‘‘(B) was diagnosed with COVID–19 dur-
ing the period described in paragraph (3), 
which, in combination with the injury or dis-
ability described in subparagraph (A), perma-
nently and totally disabled or directly and 
proximately resulted in the death of the indi-
vidual. 
In assessing a claim under this paragraph, the pre-
sumption of causation described in paragraph (1) 
shall apply. 
‘‘(3) The presumption described in paragraph 
(1) shall apply with respect to a diagnosis of 
COVID–19 beginning on January 20, 2020, and 
ending on the date that is one year after the emer-
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gency period (as such term is defined in section 
1135(g) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1320b–5(g))) based on the COVID–19 public health 
emergency ends. 
‘‘(4) The term ‘COVID–19’ means a disease 
caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome 
coronavirus 2 (SARS–CoV–2). 
‘‘(p) In determining whether the personal injury re-
sulting from COVID–19 was a catastrophic injury, the At-
torney General’s inquiry shall be limited to whether the 
individual is permanently prevented from performing any 
gainful work as a public safety officer.’’. 
TITLE IX—VICTIMS OF CRIME 
ACT AMENDMENTS 
SEC. 190901. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Victims of Crime Act 
Fix Act of 2020’’. 
SEC. 190902. DEPOSITS OF FUNDING INTO THE CRIME VIC-
TIMS FUND. 
Section 1402(b) of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 
(34 U.S.C. 20101(b)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; 
(2) in paragraph (5), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
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(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(6) any funds that would otherwise be depos-
ited in the general fund of the Treasury collected as 
pursuant to— 
‘‘(A) a deferred prosecution agreement; or 
‘‘(B) a non-prosecution agreement.’’. 
SEC. 190903. WAIVER OF MATCHING REQUIREMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of VOCA, during the COVID–19 emergency period 
and for the period ending one year after the date on which 
such period expires or is terminated, the Attorney General, 
acting through the Director of the Office for Victims of 
Crime, may not impose any matching requirement as a 
condition of receipt of funds under any program to provide 
assistance to victims of crimes authorized under the Vic-
tims of Crime Act of 1984 (34 U.S.C. 20101 et seq.). 
(b) 
DEFINITION.—In 
this 
section, 
the 
term 
‘‘COVID–19 emergency period’’ means the period begin-
ning on the date on which the President declared a na-
tional emergency under the National Emergencies Act (50 
U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) with respect to the Coronavirus Dis-
ease 2019 (COVID–19) and ending on the date that is 
30 days after the date on which the national emergency 
declaration is terminated.
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(c) APPLICATION.—This section shall apply with re-
spect to— 
(1) applications submitted during the period de-
scribed under subsection (a), including applications 
for which funds will be distributed after such period; 
and 
(2) distributions of funds made during the pe-
riod described under subsection (a), including dis-
tributions made pursuant to applications submitted 
before such period. 
TITLE X—JABARA-HEYER NO 
HATE ACT 
SEC. 191001. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Jabara-Heyer Na-
tional Opposition to Hate, Assault, and Threats to Equal-
ity Act of 2020’’ or the ‘‘Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act’’. 
SEC. 191002. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The incidence of violence known as hate 
crimes or crimes motivated by bias poses a serious 
national problem. 
(2) According to data obtained by the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, the incidence of such vio-
lence increased in 2017, the most recent year for 
which data is available.
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(3) In 1990, Congress enacted the Hate Crime 
Statistics Act (Public Law 101–275; 28 U.S.C. 534 
note) to provide the Federal Government, law en-
forcement agencies, and the public with data regard-
ing the incidence of hate crime. The Hate Crimes 
Statistics Act and the Matthew Shepard and James 
Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (division E of 
Public Law 111–84; 123 Stat. 2835) have enabled 
Federal authorities to understand and, where appro-
priate, investigate and prosecute hate crimes. 
(4) A more complete understanding of the na-
tional problem posed by hate crime is in the public 
interest and supports the Federal interest in eradi-
cating bias-motivated violence referenced in section 
249(b)(1)(C) of title 18, United States Code. 
(5) However, a complete understanding of the 
national problem posed by hate crimes is hindered 
by incomplete data from Federal, State, and local 
jurisdictions through the Uniform Crime Reports 
program authorized under section 534 of title 28, 
United States Code, and administered by the Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation. 
(6) Multiple factors contribute to the provision 
of inaccurate and incomplete data regarding the in-
cidence of hate crime through the Uniform Crime
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Reports program. A significant contributing factor is 
the quality and quantity of training that State and 
local law enforcement agencies receive on the identi-
fication and reporting of suspected bias-motivated 
crimes. 
(7) The problem of crimes motivated by bias is 
sufficiently serious, widespread, and interstate in na-
ture as to warrant Federal financial assistance to 
States and local jurisdictions. 
(8) Federal financial assistance with regard to 
certain violent crimes motivated by bias enables Fed-
eral, State, and local authorities to work together as 
partners in the investigation and prosecution of such 
crimes. 
SEC. 191003. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title: 
(1) HATE
CRIME.—The term ‘‘hate crime’’ 
means an act described in section 245, 247, or 249 
of title 18, United States Code, or in section 901 of 
the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3631). 
(2) PRIORITY
AGENCY.—The term ‘‘priority 
agency’’ means— 
(A) a law enforcement agency of a unit of 
local government that serves a population of not
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less than 100,000, as computed by the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation; or 
(B) a law enforcement agency of a unit of 
local government that— 
(i) serves a population of not less than 
50,000 and less than 100,000, as com-
puted by the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion; and 
(ii) has reported no hate crimes 
through the Uniform Crime Reports pro-
gram in each of the 3 most recent calendar 
years for which such data is available. 
(3) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ has the mean-
ing given the term in section 901 of title I of the 
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (34 U.S.C. 10251). 
(4) UNIFORM
CRIME
REPORTS.—The term 
‘‘Uniform Crime Reports’’ means the reports author-
ized under section 534 of title 28, United States 
Code, and administered by the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation that compile nationwide criminal sta-
tistics for use— 
(A) in law enforcement administration, op-
eration, and management; and
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(B) to assess the nature and type of crime 
in the United States. 
(5) UNIT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT.—The term 
‘‘unit of local government’’ has the meaning given 
the term in section 901 of title I of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 
U.S.C. 10251). 
SEC. 191004. REPORTING OF HATE CRIMES. 
(a) IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General may 
make grants to States and units of local government 
to assist the State or unit of local government in im-
plementing the National Incident-Based Reporting 
System, including to train employees in identifying 
and classifying hate crimes in the National Incident- 
Based Reporting System. 
(2) PRIORITY.—In making grants under para-
graph (1), the Attorney General shall give priority to 
States and units of local government with larger 
populations. 
(b) REPORTING.— 
(1) COMPLIANCE.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in 
subparagraph (B), in each fiscal year beginning 
after the date that is 3 years after the date on
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which a State or unit of local government first 
receives a grant under subsection (a), the State 
or unit of local government shall provide to the 
Attorney General, through the Uniform Crime 
Reporting system, information pertaining to 
hate crimes committed in that jurisdiction dur-
ing the preceding fiscal year. 
(B) EXTENSIONS; WAIVER.—The Attorney 
General— 
(i) may provide a 120-day extension 
to a State or unit of local government that 
is making good faith efforts to comply with 
subparagraph (A); and 
(ii) shall waive the requirements of 
subparagraph (A) if compliance with that 
subparagraph by a State or unit of local 
government 
would 
be 
unconstitutional 
under the constitution of the State or of 
the State in which the unit of local govern-
ment is located, respectively. 
(2) FAILURE TO COMPLY.—If a State or unit of 
local government that receives a grant under sub-
section (a) fails to substantially comply with para-
graph (1) of this subsection, the State or unit of 
local government shall repay the grant in full, plus
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reasonable interest and penalty charges allowable by 
law or established by the Attorney General. 
SEC. 191005. GRANTS FOR STATE-RUN HATE CRIME HOT-
LINES. 
(a) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall 
make grants to States to create State-run hate 
crime reporting hotlines. 
(2) GRANT
PERIOD.—A grant made under 
paragraph (1) shall be for a period of not more than 
5 years. 
(b) HOTLINE REQUIREMENTS.—A State shall ensure, 
with respect to a hotline funded by a grant under sub-
section (a), that— 
(1) the hotline directs individuals to— 
(A) law enforcement if appropriate; and 
(B) local support services; 
(2) any personally identifiable information that 
an individual provides to an agency of the State 
through the hotline is not directly or indirectly dis-
closed, without the consent of the individual, to— 
(A) any other agency of that State; 
(B) any other State; 
(C) the Federal Government; or 
(D) any other person or entity;
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(3) the staff members who operate the hotline 
are trained to be knowledgeable about— 
(A) applicable Federal, State, and local 
hate crime laws; and 
(B) local law enforcement resources and 
applicable local support services; and 
(4) the hotline is accessible to— 
(A) individuals with limited English pro-
ficiency, where appropriate; and 
(B) individuals with disabilities. 
(c) BEST PRACTICES.—The Attorney General shall 
issue guidance to States on best practices for imple-
menting the requirements of subsection (b). 
SEC. 191006. INFORMATION COLLECTION BY STATES AND 
UNITS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPLICABLE AGENCY.—The term ‘‘applica-
ble agency’’, with respect to an eligible entity that 
is— 
(A) a State, means— 
(i) a law enforcement agency of the 
State; and 
(ii) a law enforcement agency of a 
unit of local government within the State 
that—
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(I) is a priority agency; and 
(II) receives a subgrant from the 
State under this section; and 
(B) a unit of local government, means a 
law enforcement agency of the unit of local gov-
ernment that is a priority agency. 
(2) COVERED
AGENCY.—The term ‘‘covered 
agency’’ means— 
(A) a State law enforcement agency; or 
(B) a priority agency. 
(3) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘‘eligible enti-
ty’’ means— 
(A) a State; or 
(B) a unit of local government that has a 
priority agency. 
(b) GRANTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General may 
make grants to eligible entities to assist covered 
agencies within the jurisdiction of the eligible entity 
in conducting law enforcement activities or crime re-
duction programs to prevent, address, or otherwise 
respond to hate crime, particularly as those activities 
or programs relate to reporting hate crimes through 
the Uniform Crime Reports program, including—
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(A) adopting a policy on identifying, inves-
tigating, and reporting hate crimes; 
(B) developing a standardized system of 
collecting, analyzing, and reporting the inci-
dence of hate crime; 
(C) establishing a unit specialized in iden-
tifying, 
investigating, 
and 
reporting 
hate 
crimes; 
(D) engaging in community relations func-
tions related to hate crime prevention and edu-
cation such as— 
(i) establishing a liaison with formal 
community-based organizations or leaders; 
and 
(ii) conducting public meetings or 
educational forums on the impact of hate 
crimes, services available to hate crime vic-
tims, and the relevant Federal, State, and 
local laws pertaining to hate crimes; and 
(E) providing hate crime trainings for 
agency personnel. 
(2) SUBGRANTS.—A State that receives a grant 
under paragraph (1) may award a subgrant to a pri-
ority agency of a unit of local government within the 
State for the purposes under that paragraph.
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(c) INFORMATION REQUIRED OF STATES AND UNITS 
OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—For each fiscal year in 
which an eligible entity receives a grant under sub-
section (b), the eligible entity shall— 
(A) collect information from each applica-
ble agency summarizing the law enforcement 
activities or crime reduction programs con-
ducted by the agency to prevent, address, or 
otherwise respond to hate crime, particularly as 
those activities or programs relate to reporting 
hate crimes through the Uniform Crime Re-
ports program; and 
(B) submit to the Attorney General a re-
port containing the information collected under 
subparagraph (A). 
(2) SEMIANNUAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY 
REPORT.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—In collecting the infor-
mation required under paragraph (1)(A), an eli-
gible entity shall require each applicable agency 
to submit a semiannual report to the eligible 
entity that includes a summary of the law en-
forcement activities or crime reduction pro-
grams conducted by the agency during the re-
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porting period to prevent, address, or otherwise 
respond to hate crime, particularly as those ac-
tivities or programs relate to reporting hate 
crimes through the Uniform Crime Reports pro-
gram. 
(B) CONTENTS.—In a report submitted 
under subparagraph (A), a law enforcement 
agency shall, at a minimum, disclose— 
(i) whether the agency has adopted a 
policy on identifying, investigating, and re-
porting hate crimes; 
(ii) whether the agency has developed 
a standardized system of collecting, ana-
lyzing, and reporting the incidence of hate 
crime; 
(iii) whether the agency has estab-
lished a unit specialized in identifying, in-
vestigating, and reporting hate crimes; 
(iv) whether the agency engages in 
community relations functions related to 
hate crime, such as— 
(I) establishing a liaison with for-
mal community-based organizations or 
leaders; and
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(II) conducting public meetings 
or educational forums on the impact 
of hate crime, services available to 
hate crime victims, and the relevant 
Federal, State, and local laws per-
taining to hate crime; and 
(v) 
the 
number 
of 
hate 
crime 
trainings for agency personnel, including 
the duration of the trainings, conducted by 
the agency during the reporting period. 
(d) COMPLIANCE AND REDIRECTION OF FUNDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), beginning not later than 1 year after the 
date of enactment of this title, an eligible entity re-
ceiving a grant under subsection (b) shall comply 
with subsection (c). 
(2) EXTENSIONS; WAIVER.—The Attorney Gen-
eral— 
(A) may provide a 120-day extension to an 
eligible entity that is making good faith efforts 
to collect the information required under sub-
section (c); and 
(B) shall waive the requirements of sub-
section (c) for a State or unit of local govern-
ment if compliance with that subsection by the
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State or unit of local government would be un-
constitutional under the constitution of the 
State or of the State in which the unit of local 
government is located, respectively. 
SEC. 191007. REQUIREMENTS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. 
(a) INFORMATION COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS; RE-
PORT.—In order to improve the accuracy of data regard-
ing the incidence of hate crime provided through the Uni-
form Crime Reports program, and promote a more com-
plete understanding of the national problem posed by hate 
crime, the Attorney General shall— 
(1) collect and analyze the information provided 
by States and units of local government under sec-
tion 191006 for the purpose of developing policies 
related to the provision of accurate data obtained 
under the Hate Crime Statistics Act (Public Law 
101–275; 28 U.S.C. 534 note) by the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation; and 
(2) for each calendar year beginning after the 
date of enactment of this title, publish and submit 
to Congress a report based on the information col-
lected and analyzed under paragraph (1). 
(b) CONTENTS
OF REPORT.—A report submitted 
under subsection (a) shall include—
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(1) a qualitative analysis of the relationship be-
tween— 
(A) the number of hate crimes reported by 
State law enforcement agencies or priority 
agencies through the Uniform Crime Reports 
program; and 
(B) the nature and extent of law enforce-
ment activities or crime reduction programs 
conducted by those agencies to prevent, ad-
dress, or otherwise respond to hate crime; and 
(2) a quantitative analysis of the number of 
State law enforcement agencies and priority agencies 
that have— 
(A) adopted a policy on identifying, inves-
tigating, and reporting hate crimes; 
(B) developed a standardized system of 
collecting, analyzing, and reporting the inci-
dence of hate crime; 
(C) established a unit specialized in identi-
fying, investigating, and reporting hate crimes; 
(D) engaged in community relations func-
tions related to hate crime, such as— 
(i) establishing a liaison with formal 
community-based organizations or leaders; 
and
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(ii) conducting public meetings or 
educational forums on the impact of hate 
crime, services available to hate crime vic-
tims, and the relevant Federal, State, and 
local laws pertaining to hate crime; and 
(E) conducted hate crime trainings for 
agency personnel during the reporting period, 
including— 
(i) the total number of trainings con-
ducted by each agency; and 
(ii) the duration of the trainings de-
scribed in clause (i). 
SEC. 191008. ALTERNATIVE SENTENCING. 
Section 249 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(e) SUPERVISED RELEASE.—If a court includes, as 
a part of a sentence of imprisonment imposed for a viola-
tion of subsection (a), a requirement that the defendant 
be placed on a term of supervised release after imprison-
ment under section 3583, the court may order, as an ex-
plicit condition of supervised release, that the defendant 
undertake educational classes or community service di-
rectly related to the community harmed by the defendant’s 
offense.’’.
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TITLE XI—PRISONS AND JAILS 
SEC. 191101. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Pandemic Justice Re-
sponse Act’’. 
SEC. 191102. EMERGENCY COMMUNITY SUPERVISION ACT. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) As of the date of introduction of this Act, 
the novel coronavirus has spread to all 50 States, 
the District of Columbia, and 3 territories. 
(2) The Centers for Disease Control and Pre-
vention have projected that between 160,000,000 
and 214,000,000 people could be infected by the 
novel coronavirus in the United States over the 
course of the pandemic. 
(3) Although the United States has less than 5 
percent of the world’s population, the United States 
holds approximately 21 percent of the world’s pris-
oners and leads the world in the number of individ-
uals incarcerated, with nearly 2,200,000 people in-
carcerated in State and Federal prisons and local 
jails. 
(4) Studies have shown that individuals age out 
of crime starting around 25 years of age, and re-
leased individuals over the age of 50 have a very low 
recidivism rate.
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(5) According to public health experts, incarcer-
ated individuals are particularly vulnerable to being 
gravely impacted by the novel corona virus pandemic 
because— 
(A) they have higher rates of underlying 
health issues than members of the general pub-
lic, including higher rates of respiratory disease, 
heart disease, diabetes, obesity, HIV/AIDS, 
substance abuse, hepatitis, and other conditions 
that suppress immune response; and 
(B) the close conditions and lack of access 
to hygiene products in prisons make these insti-
tutions 
unusually 
susceptible 
to 
viral 
pandemics. 
(6) The spread of communicable disease in the 
United States generally constitutes a serious, height-
ened threat to the safety of incarcerated individuals, 
and there is a serious threat to the general public 
that prisons may become incubators of community 
spread of communicable viral disease. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) COVERED HEALTH CONDITION.—The term 
‘‘covered health condition’’ with respect to an indi-
vidual, means the individual— 
(A) is pregnant;
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(B) has chronic lung disease or asthma; 
(C) has congestive heart failure or coro-
nary artery disease; 
(D) has diabetes; 
(E) has a neurological condition that weak-
ens the ability to cough or breathe; 
(F) has HIV; 
(G) has sickle cell anemia; 
(H) has cancer; or 
(I) has a weakened immune system. 
(2) COVERED INDIVIDUAL.—The term ‘‘covered 
individual’’— 
(A) means an individual who— 
(i) is a juvenile (as defined in section 
5031 of title 18, United States Code); 
(ii) is 50 years of age or older; 
(iii) has a covered health condition; or 
(iv) is within 12 months of release 
from incarceration; and 
(B) includes an individual described in 
subparagraph (A) who is serving a term of im-
prisonment for an offense committed before No-
vember 1, 1987, or who is serving a term of im-
prisonment in the custody of the Bureau of 
Prisons for a sentence imposed pursuant to a
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conviction for a criminal offense under the laws 
of the District of Columbia. 
(3) NATIONAL
EMERGENCY
RELATING
TO
A 
COMMUNICABLE
DISEASE.—The 
term 
‘‘national 
emergency relating to a communicable disease’’ 
means— 
(A) an emergency involving Federal pri-
mary responsibility determined to exist by the 
President under the section 501(b) of the Rob-
ert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5191(b)) with re-
spect to a communicable disease; or 
(B) a national emergency declared by the 
President under the National Emergencies Act 
(50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) with respect to a com-
municable disease. 
(c) PLACEMENT OF CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS IN COM-
MUNITY SUPERVISION.— 
(1) AUTHORITY.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), beginning on the date on which a national 
emergency relating to a communicable disease is de-
clared and ending on the date that is 60 days after 
such national emergency expires or is terminated— 
(A) notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons shall
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place in community supervision all covered indi-
viduals who are in the custody of the Bureau of 
Prisons; and 
(B) the district court of the United States 
for each judicial district shall place in commu-
nity supervision all covered individuals who are 
in the custody and care of the United States 
Marshals Service. 
(2) EXCEPTIONS.— 
(A) BUREAU OF PRISONS.—In carrying out 
paragraph (1)(A), the Director— 
(i) may not place in community super-
vision any individual determined, by clear 
and convincing evidence, to be likely to 
pose a specific and substantial risk of 
causing bodily injury to or using violent 
force against the person of another; 
(ii) shall place in the file of each indi-
vidual described in clause (i) documenta-
tion of such determination, including the 
evidence used to make the determination; 
and 
(iii) not later than 180 days after the 
date on which the national emergency re-
lating to a communicable disease expires,