Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2022
Bill: H.R.7955 | Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila (D-TX)
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2022
This bill establishes a standard for determining whether a person engaged in a white supremacy inspired hate crime. The bill also sets forth the elements of related conspiracies.
Specifically, the bill states that a person engaged in a white supremacy inspired hate crime when white supremacy ideology motivated the actions that constituted a crime or were undertaken in furtherance of activity that would have constituted a crime.
Additionally, the bill sets forth the elements of an offense involving the conspiracy to engage in a white supremacy inspired hate crime.
Finally, the bill authorizes the Department of Justice to investigate, prosecute, and maintain records of white supremacy inspired hate crimes and related conspiracies.

To prevent and prosecute white supremacy inspired hate crime and 
       conspiracy to commit white supremacy inspired hate crime.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Leading Against White Supremacy Act 
of 2022''.

SEC. 2. WHITE SUPREMACY INSPIRED HATE CRIME.

    (a) In General.--A person shall be determined to have engaged in a 
white supremacy inspired hate crime when white supremacy ideology is 
found to have motivated the planning, development, preparation, or 
perpetration of actions that constituted a crime or were undertaken in 
furtherance of activity that, if effectuated, would have constituted a 
crime.
    (b) Conspiracy.--A conspiracy to engage in white supremacy inspired 
hate crime shall be determined to exist--
            (1) between two or more persons engaged in the planning, 
        development, preparation, or perpetration of a white supremacy 
        inspired hate crime; or
            (2) between two or more persons--
                    (A) at least one of whom engaged in the planning, 
                development, preparation, or perpetration of a white 
                supremacy inspired hate crime; and
                    (B) at least one of whom published material 
                advancing white supremacy, white supremacist ideology, 
                antagonism toward ``replacement theory'', or hate 
                speech that vilifies or is otherwise directed against 
                any non-white person or group, and such published 
                material--
                            (i) was published on a social media 
                        platform or by other means of publication with 
                        the likelihood that it would be viewed by 
                        persons who are predisposed to engaging in any 
                        action in furtherance of a white supremacy 
                        inspired hate crime, or who are susceptible to 
                        being encouraged to engage in actions in 
                        furtherance of a white supremacy inspired hate 
                        crime;
                            (ii) could, as determined by a reasonable 
                        person, motivate actions by a person 
                        predisposed to engaging in a white supremacy 
                        inspired hate crime or by a person who is 
                        susceptible to being encouraged to engage in 
                        actions relating to a white supremacy inspired 
                        hate crime; and
                            (iii) was read, heard, or viewed by a 
                        person who engaged in the planning, 
                        development, preparation, or perpetration of a 
                        white supremacy inspired hate crime.
    (c) Department of Justice Authority, Enforcement, Monitoring, and 
Reporting.--The Department shall have authority to conduct operations 
and activities pursuant to this section, specifically--
            (1) with regard to information or evidence obtained by the 
        Department of any action cited in this section, the Department 
        shall have the authority to investigate, intercede, and 
        undertake other actions that it deems necessary and appropriate 
        to interdict, mitigate, or prevent such action from culminating 
        in violent activity;
            (2) the Department shall have the authority to prosecute 
        persons who engaged in actions cited in this section; and
            (3) the Uniform Crime Reporting Program in the Department 
        of Justice shall maintain records of white supremacy inspired 
        hate crimes and related actions cited in this section, and 
        enforcement actions in response thereto.
The Department shall provide annual reports to the appropriate 
committees in Congress that shall include information cited in this 
paragraph.
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