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This bill, the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, aims to facilitate the expedited review of hate crimes related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The key provisions include: 1) Requiring the Attorney General to designate a Justice Department official whose sole responsibility is to review COVID-19 hate crimes and reports of such crimes to federal, state, or local law enforcement agencies. 2) Defining a "COVID-19 hate crime" as a crime of violence motivated by the actual or perceived race, ethnicity, age, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability of the victim, and the perceived relationship to the spread of COVID-19. 3) Directing the Attorney General to issue guidance for state and local law enforcement on establishing online hate crime reporting in multiple languages and expanding public education campaigns, data collection, and public reporting on hate crimes. 4) Requiring the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue guidance on best practices to mitigate racially discriminatory language in describing the COVID-19 pandemic.

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