[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1193 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1193

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

                             March 9, 2005

   Mrs. Maloney (for herself, Mr. Weiner, Mr. Cummings, Ms. Lee, Mr. 
   Gutierrez, Mr. George Miller of California, Ms. Woolsey, Ms. Zoe 
  Lofgren of California, Mr. Gonzalez, Mr. Sanders, and Ms. Linda T. 
    Sanchez of California) 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 2005''.

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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