Hate Crime Statistics Act

(colloquial)HCSANicknamesHate Crime Statistics Act of 1990Enacted bythe 101st United States CongressEffectiveApril 23, 1990CitationsPublic law101-275Statutes at Large104 Stat. 140CodificationTitles amended28 U.S.C.: Judiciary and Judicial ProcedureU.S.C. sections amended28 U.S.C. § 534Legislative history

Introduced in the House as H.R. 1048 by John Conyers (D–MI) on February 22, 1989
Committee consideration by House Judiciary, Senate Judiciary
Passed the House on June 27, 1989 (368-47)
Passed the Senate on February 8, 1990 (92-4 Roll call vote 13, via Senate.gov, in lieu of S. 419) with amendment
House agreed to Senate amendment on April 4, 1990 (402-18 Roll call vote 066, via Clerk.House.gov)
Signed into law by President George H. W. Bush on April 23, 1990

The Hate Crime Statistics Act, 28 U.S.C. § 534 (HCSA), passed in 1990 and modified in 2009 by the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act,^[1] requires the Attorney General to collect data on crimes committed because of the victim's race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity. The bill was signed into law by George H. W. Bush, and was the first federal statute to "recognize and name gay, lesbian and bisexual people."^[2] Since 1992, the Department of Justice through one of its agencies, the FBI, has jointly published an annual report on hate crime statistics.^[3]^[4]

On November 16, 2020, the FBI released its 2019 Hate Crime Statistics Act (HCSA) report with the total number of reported hate crime incidents rising 2.7% to 7,317 (2019) from 7,120 (2018).^[5]

References

^ "FBI — Hate Crime Statistics Act". FBI.
^ Hate Crimes Protections Timeline Archived 2014-04-01 at the Wayback Machine, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Retrieved on 05-04-2007.
^ "Hate Crime Statistics, 2004". Federal Bureau of Investigation. U.S. Department of Justice.
^ "FBI — Latest Hate Crime Statistics Report Released". FBI.
^ "About Hate Crime Statistics". FBI. Retrieved 2020-11-16.