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111th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 823
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
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.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Hate Crime Statistics Improvement Act of 2009
.
Amendment to Hate Crime Statistics Act
In general
Subsection (b)(1) of the first section of the Hate Crime Statistics Act (28 U.S.C. 534 note) is amended—
by striking or
after sexual orientation,
; and
by inserting or gender,
after ethnicity,
.
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.