[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6086 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6086

   To amend section 249 of title 18, United States Code, to specify 
                     lynching as a hate crime act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 13, 2018

   Mr. Rush (for himself, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Ms. Maxine 
 Waters of California, Mr. Clyburn, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Ms. Jackson 
Lee, Mr. Clay, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. 
 Bass, Ms. Sewell of Alabama, Mr. Payne, Mr. Jeffries, Ms. Adams, Mrs. 
Watson Coleman, Ms. Moore, Ms. Norton, Ms. Lee, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Meeks, 
Mrs. Demings, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. 
Hastings, Mr. Brown of Maryland, Mr. Ellison, Mr. Evans, Ms. Wilson of 
   Florida, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Richmond, Mr. Cleaver, Mrs. 
    Lawrence, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Ms. Fudge, Mr. Bishop of 
  Georgia, and Mr. Carson of Indiana) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend section 249 of title 18, United States Code, to specify 
                     lynching as a hate crime act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SPECIFYING LYNCHING AS A HATE CRIME ACT.

    Section 249 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting after paragraph 3 the following:
            ``(4) Offenses involving lynching.--Whoever, whether or not 
        acting under color of law, willfully, acting as part of any 
        collection of people, assembled for the purpose and with the 
        intention of committing an act of violence upon any person, 
        causes death to any person, shall be imprisoned for any term of 
        years or for life, fined under this title, or both.''.
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