Bill > S3724

This bill, titled the "Improving Reporting to Prevent Hate Act of 2026," amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to require the Attorney General to evaluate whether local governments with over 100,000 people that receive grants are credibly reporting hate crimes to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). A "covered jurisdiction" will be deemed not to be reporting credibly if they haven't reported hate crime data to the FBI or have reported zero incidents in a given year. Such jurisdictions will lose eligibility for grants unless the Attorney General certifies they have undertaken significant community public education and awareness initiatives on hate crimes, which includes making progress on comprehensive reporting, adopting policies, developing standardized systems for collecting and reporting hate crimes to the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System, establishing specialized units or liaisons for hate crimes, or conducting public meetings and educational forums. The Attorney General will annually publish a report on jurisdictions that receive this certification. A hate crime is defined as an act described in the Hate Crime Statistics Act and certain federal criminal statutes related to civil rights and hate crimes.

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