Bill > HR6721

Introduced Session

To facilitate the expedited review of COVID-19 hate crimes, and for other purposes. This bill requires a designated officer or employee of the Department of Justice to facilitate the expedited review of COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) hate crimes and reports of COVID-19 hate crimes. It defines COVID-19 hate crime as a violent crime that is motivated by two things: (1) the actual or perceived characteristic (e.g., race) of any person, and (2) the actual or perceived relationship to the spread of COVID-19 of any person because of that characteristic. The designated officer or employee must periodically report on the status of each case reviewed.

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Grace Meng (D)*,  Earl Blumenauer (D),  Brendan Boyle (D),  Judy Chu (D),  Gil Cisneros (D),  Emanuel Cleaver (D),  Jim Costa (D),  Eliot Engel (D),  Anna Eshoo (D),  Adriano Espaillat (D),  Jimmy Gomez (D),  Al Green (D),  Jahana Hayes (D),  Sheila Jackson-Lee (D),  Pramila Jayapal (D),  Joseph Kennedy (D),  Derek Kilmer (D),  Barbara Lee (D),  Ted Lieu (D),  Alan Lowenthal (D),  Stephen Lynch (D),  Grace Napolitano (D),  Eleanor Holmes Norton (D),  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D),  Bill Pascrell (D),  Donald Payne (D),  Kathleen Rice (D),  Max Rose (D),  Michael San Nicolas (D),  Adam Smith (D),  Tom Suozzi (D),  Mark Takano (D),  David Trone (D),  Nydia Velázquez (D),  Bonnie Watson Coleman (D), 

Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. (on 05/05/2020)

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