[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1152 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1152

 To direct the United States Sentencing Commission to make sentencing 
     guidelines for Federal criminal cases that provide sentencing 
                     enhancements for hate crimes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 1993

     Mr. Schumer (for himself, Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. Schiff, Mrs. 
   Schroeder, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Scott, Mr. Glickman, Mr. Hughes, Mr. 
    Berman, Mrs. Kennelly, Mr. Lantos, Mr. Deutsch, Mr. Waxman, Mr. 
   Hastings, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Studds, Mr. LaRocco, Mr. Williams, Mr. 
    Frost, Mr. Matsui, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Owens, Mr. Applegate, Mrs. 
 Maloney, Mr. Barrett of Wisconsin, Mrs. Lowey, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Dixon, 
Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. Martinez, Mrs. Collins of Illinois, Mr. Tucker, Mr. 
 Pastor, Mr. Rush, Mr. Stark, Mr. Klein, Mrs. Morella, Mr. Wyden, Mr. 
 Torricelli, Mr. Wynn, and Ms. Woolsey) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the United States Sentencing Commission to make sentencing 
     guidelines for Federal criminal cases that provide sentencing 
                     enhancements for hate crimes.

    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 ``Hate Crimes Sentencing Enhancement 
Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. DIRECTION TO COMMISSION.

    (a) In General.--Pursuant to section 994 of title 28, United States 
Code, the United States Sentencing Commission shall promulgate 
guidelines or amend existing guidelines to provide sentencing 
enhancements of not less than 3 offense levels for offenses that are 
hate crimes. In carrying out this section, the United States Sentencing 
Commission shall assure reasonable consistency with other guidelines, 
avoid duplicative punishments for substantially the same offense, and 
take into account any mitigating circumstances which might justify 
exceptions.
    (b) Definition.--As used in this Act, the term ``hate crime'' is a 
crime in which the defendant's conduct was motivated by hatred, bias, 
or prejudice, based on the actual or perceived race, color, religion, 
national origin, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation of another 
individual or group of individuals.

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