[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6346 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6346

To require that States and units of local government that receive funds 
 under subpart I of part E of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
 Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 et seq.) report information 
pertaining to hate crimes to the Attorney General for inclusion in the 
Uniform Crime Reports and National Incident-Based Reporting System, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 17, 2016

    Mr. Beyer (for himself, Mr. Takano, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. 
  McCollum, Ms. Norton, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. McDermott, Mr. 
 Butterfield, Mrs. Dingell, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. DelBene, Mr. Cardenas, 
Mr. Tonko, Mr. Keating, Mr. Kind, Mr. Polis, Mr. Cohen, Ms. Eshoo, and 
 Mr. Kildee) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To require that States and units of local government that receive funds 
 under subpart I of part E of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
 Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 et seq.) report information 
pertaining to hate crimes to the Attorney General for inclusion in the 
Uniform Crime Reports and National Incident-Based Reporting System, and 
                          for other purposes.

    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 ``National Observations of Hate, 
Assaults, and Threats to Equality Act of 2016'' or the ``NO HATE Act of 
2016''.

SEC. 2. REPORTING OF HATE CRIMES.

    (a) In General.--A State or unit of local government that receives 
funds under subpart I of part E of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 et seq.) shall provide to 
the Attorney General information pertaining to hate crimes committed in 
that jurisdiction for the previous fiscal year. In the case of a State 
or unit of local government that fails substantially to provide the 
information required under this subsection, the Attorney General shall 
withhold the amount that would otherwise be awarded to that State or 
unit of local government under such grant program in the following 
fiscal year.
    (b) Inclusion of Information in Crime Reports.--The Director of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation shall include the information received 
under subsection (a) in the Uniform Crime Reports and the National 
Incident-Based Reporting System.
    (c) Definitions.--For purposes of this section:
            (1) The term ``Uniform Crime Reports'' means the reports 
        authorized under section 534 of title 28, United States Code, 
        and administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation which 
        compiles nationwide criminal statistics for use in law 
        enforcement administration, operation, and management and to 
        assess the nature and type of crime in the United States.
            (2) The term ``hate crime'' means a criminal offense 
        against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by 
        an offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual 
        orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity.
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