[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 374 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 374

To amend the Hate Crime Statistics Act to require the Attorney General 
to acquire data about crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based 
                               on gender.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 27, 2003

 Mrs. Maloney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Hate Crime Statistics Act to require the Attorney General 
to acquire data about crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based 
                               on gender.

    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 Crime Statistics Improvement 
Act of 2003''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO HATE CRIME STATISTICS ACT.

    (a) In General.--Subsection (b)(1) of the first section of the Hate 
Crime Statistics Act (28 U.S.C. 534 note) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``or'' after ``sexual orientation,''; and
            (2) by inserting ``or gender,'' after ``ethnicity,''.
    (b) Application.--The amendment made by subsection (a) applies to 
data about crimes occurring on or after the first day of the first 
calendar year after the enactment of this Act.
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