[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6883 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6883

 To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of 
  higher education to track and record additional information on hate 
                    crimes, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 22, 2023

  Mr. Espaillat (for himself and Mrs. Watson Coleman) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                             the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of 
  higher education to track and record additional information on hate 
                    crimes, 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 ``Combating Hate Across Campus Act''.

SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE OF CAMPUS SECURITY POLICY AND CAMPUS CRIME 
              STATISTICS.

    Section 485(f)(1)(F)(ii) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 1092(f)(1)(F)(ii)) is amended by striking ``which data shall be 
collected and reported according to category of prejudice; and'' and 
inserting ``which data shall--
                                    ``(I) be collected and reported 
                                according to category of prejudice; and
                                    ``(II) disaggregated by 
                                subcategories based on the identity of 
                                the targeted individual or group, 
                                including--
                                            ``(aa) anti-Semitism;
                                            ``(bb) Islamophobia;
                                            ``(cc) homophobia;
                                            ``(dd) biphobia;
                                            ``(ee) transphobia;
                                            ``(ff) disability bias;
                                            ``(gg) in the case of an 
                                        action targeting a particular 
                                        ethnic group, the identity of 
                                        the ethnic group; and
                                            ``(hh) such other 
                                        subcategories as the Secretary 
                                        determines appropriate; and''.
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