[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1522 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1522

    To direct the United States Sentencing Commission to promulgate 
     guidelines or amend existing guidelines to provide sentencing 
    enhancements of not less than 3 offense levels for hate crimes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            October 6 (legislative day, September 27), 1993

Mrs. Feinstein (for herself, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Inouye, and 
Ms. Moseley-Braun) introduced the following bill; which was read twice 
             and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To direct the United States Sentencing Commission to promulgate 
     guidelines or amend existing guidelines to provide sentencing 
    enhancements of not less than 3 offense levels 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 UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION.

    (a) Definition.--In this Act, ``hate crime'' means a crime in which 
the defendant intentionally selects a victim, or in the case of a 
property crime, the property that 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.
    (b) Sentencing Enhancement.--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 ensure that there is reasonable consistency 
with other guidelines, avoid duplicative punishments for substantially 
the same offense, and take into account any mitigating circumstances 
that might justify exceptions.

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