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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2588
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to
include certain reporting to the uniform crime reporting program.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL2, 2025
Mr. B
EYER(for himself and Mr. BACON) introduced the following bill; which
was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets
Act of 1968 to include certain reporting to the uniform
crime reporting program.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Improving Reporting 4
to Prevent Hate Act of 2025’’. 5
SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO CREDIBLY REPORT HATE 6
CRIMES. 7
Section 505 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 8
Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10156) is amended by 9
adding at the end the following: 10
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‘‘(j) EVALUATION FOR REPORTING ON HATE 1
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RIMES.—Beginning not later than three years after the 2
date of the enactment of this Act and from the data ac-3
quired by the Attorney General in accordance with the 4
Hate Crimes Statistics Act (34 U.S.C. 41305), the Attor-5
ney General shall establish a method of evaluating and use 6
such method to evaluate whether a covered jurisdiction 7
has credibly reporting hate crimes, including whether, for 8
each year, a covered jurisdiction— 9
‘‘(1) has not reported hate crime data to the 10
Federal Bureau of Investigation; or 11
‘‘(2) has reported zero hate crime incidents to 12
the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 13
‘‘(k) E
LIGIBILITY.— 14
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—A covered jurisdiction that 15
is found not to have credibly reported hate crimes 16
following an evaluation pursuant to subsection (j) 17
shall not be eligible for an allocation under this sec-18
tion. 19
‘‘(2) E
XCEPTION.—A covered jurisdiction that 20
is found not to have credibly reported hate crimes 21
following an evaluation pursuant to subsection (j) 22
shall not be subject to a penalty under paragraph 23
(1) if the Attorney General certifies that the covered 24
jurisdiction has conducted significant community 25
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public education and awareness initiatives on hate 1
crimes. 2
‘‘(l) A
NNUALREPORT.—Each year the Attorney Gen-3
eral shall publish on the internet website of the Depart-4
ment of Justice a report on the covered jurisdictions cer-5
tified under subsection (k)(2). 6
‘‘(m) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 7
‘‘(1) C
OVERED JURISDICTION.—The term ‘cov-8
ered jurisdiction’ means a unit of local government 9
that has a requested a grant under this subpart and 10
has a population of over 100,000 people. 11
‘‘(2) H
ATE CRIME.—The term ‘hate crime’ 12
means— 13
‘‘(A) an act described in section 1(b)(1) of 14
the Hate Crime Statistics Act ((34 U.S.C. 15
41305(1)(b)(1)); and 16
‘‘(B) an act in violation of sections 241, 17
245, 247, or 249 of title 18, United States 18
Code. 19
‘‘(3) S
IGNIFICANT COMMUNITY PUBLIC EDU -20
CATION AND AWARENESS INITIATIVES ON HATE 21
CRIMES.—The term ‘significant community public 22
education and awareness initiatives on hate crimes’ 23
means that a covered jurisdiction— 24
‘‘(A) has— 25
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‘‘(i) made substantial progress to-1
wards comprehensive reporting hate 2
crimes; 3
‘‘(ii) adopted a policy on identifying, 4
investigating, and reporting hate crimes; 5
and 6
‘‘(iii) developed a standardized system 7
of collecting, analyzing, and reporting hate 8
crimes to the National Incident-Based Re-9
porting System of the Federal Bureau of 10
Investigation; or 11
‘‘(B) may— 12
‘‘(i) establish a unit or liaison special-13
ized in identifying, investigating, and re-14
porting hate crimes and engaging in com-15
munity relations functions related to pre-16
venting hate crimes; or 17
‘‘(ii) conduct an ongoing and regular 18
public meetings or educational forums on 19
the impact of hate crimes, services avail-20
able to victims of hate crimes, and any rel-21
evant Federal, State, or local laws related 22
to hate crimes.’’. 23
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