[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 823 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 823

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

                            February 3, 2009

    Mrs. Maloney (for herself, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Waxman, Ms. Lee of 
 California, Ms. Woolsey, Mr. Stark, and Mr. Cummings) 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 2009''.

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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