[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
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[H.R. 1152 Reported in House (RH)]

                                                 Union Calendar No. 135

103d CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 1152

                          [Report No. 103-244]

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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.

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                           September 21, 1993

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed





                                                 Union Calendar No. 135
103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1152

                          [Report No. 103-244]

 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

                           September 21, 1993

Additional sponsors: Mr. Mazzoli, Mrs. Mink, Mr. Minge, Mr. Rangel, Mr. 
  Coleman, Mr. Mfume, Mr. Gunderson, Mr. McDermott, Mr. Kopetski, Mr. 
    Evans, Mr. Bereuter, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. Becerra, Mrs. Meek, Mr. 
   Menendez, Mr. Blackwell, Mr. Kildee, Ms. Furse, Ms. McKinney, Ms. 
 Norton, Mr. Swett, Mr. Fazio, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Manton, Mr. Pallone, 
    Mr. Lazio, Mr. Mineta, Mr. Johnston of Florida, Mr. Gilman, Mr. 
Sangmeister, Mr. Levy, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mr. Filner, 
                        Mr. Klug, and Mr. Nadler

                           September 21, 1993

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
 [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 
                                1, 1993]

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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 the 
finder of fact at trial determines beyond a reasonable doubt 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 intentionally selects a victim, or in the 
case of a property crime, the property which is the object of the 
crime, because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, 
national origin, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation of any 
person.