[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7998 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7998

 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

                             April 15, 2024

Mr. Espaillat 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 subcategory 
                                based on the identity of the targeted 
                                individual or group, as listed in the 
                                most recently available Hate Crime Data 
                                Collection Guidelines and Training 
                                Manual published by the Criminal 
                                Justice Information Services Division 
                                of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; 
                                and''.
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