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Improving Reporting to Prevent Hate Act of 2026
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include certain reporting to the uniform crime reporting program.
Summary
- Requires the Attorney General to establish a method to evaluate whether large local jurisdictions (over 100,000 people) are credibly reporting hate crimes to the FBI.
- Local jurisdictions found not to be credibly reporting hate crimes—defined as reporting no data or zero incidents—lose eligibility for federal grant funding for the following fiscal year.
- Provides an exception allowing jurisdictions to retain grant eligibility if the Attorney General certifies they have conducted significant community education and awareness initiatives on hate crimes.
- Qualifies as significant initiatives policies on identifying and reporting hate crimes, standardized data collection systems, a specialized hate crimes unit or liaison, or regular public meetings on hate crimes and victim services.
- Requires the Attorney General to publish an annual public report listing jurisdictions certified as meeting the exception requirements.
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Sponsor (1)
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![Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]](https://media.civicgate.org/people/d/politicians/H001042.thumb.jpg)
Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. (D-HI)
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![Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]](https://media.civicgate.org/people/d/politicians/C001035.thumb.jpg)
Sen. Collins, Susan M. (R-ME)
Actions (2)
- Jan 29, 2026 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. · senate
- Jan 29, 2026 Introduced in Senate
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 29, 2026
Ms. Hirono (for herself and Ms. Collins) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include certain reporting to the uniform crime reporting program.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Improving Reporting to Prevent Hate Act of 2026”.
SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO CREDIBLY REPORT HATE CRIMES.
Section 505 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10156) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(j) Requirement to Credibly Report Hate Crimes.—
“(1) Evaluation for reporting on hate crimes.—Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of the Improving Reporting to Prevent Hate Act of 2026, using the data acquired by the Attorney General in accordance with the Hate Crimes Statistics Act (34 U.S.C. 41305), the Attorney General shall establish a method of evaluating, and thereafter shall use the method to evaluate, whether a covered jurisdiction is credibly reporting hate crimes, including whether, for each year, a covered jurisdiction—
“(A) has not reported hate crime data to the Federal Bureau of Investigation; or
“(B) has reported zero hate crime incidents to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“(2) Eligibility.—
“(A) In general.—A covered jurisdiction that is found, through an evaluation under paragraph (1), not to have credibly reported hate crimes for a year shall not be eligible for an allocation under this section for the fiscal year beginning after that year.
“(B) Exception.—Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to a covered jurisdiction that is found, through an evaluation under paragraph (1), not to have credibly reported hate crimes for a year if the Attorney General certifies that the covered jurisdiction has conducted significant community public education and awareness initiatives on hate crimes.
“(3) Annual report.—Each year, the Attorney General shall publish on the internet website of the Department of Justice a report on the covered jurisdictions certified under paragraph
(2)(B).
“(4) Definitions.—For purposes of this subsection:
“(A) Covered jurisdiction.—The term ‘covered jurisdiction’ means a unit of local government that has requested a grant under this subpart and has a population of more than 100,000 people.
“(B) Has conducted significant community public education and awareness initiatives on hate crimes.— The term ‘has conducted significant community public education and awareness initiatives on hate crimes’, with respect to a covered jurisdiction, means the covered jurisdiction—
“(i) has—
“(I) made substantial progress towards comprehensive reporting of hate crimes;
“(II) adopted a policy on identifying, investigating, and reporting hate crimes; and
“(III) developed a standardized system of collecting and analyzing hate crimes and reporting hate crimes to the National Incident-Based Reporting System of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; or
“(ii) has—
“(I) established a unit or liaison specialized in identifying, investigating, and reporting hate crimes and engaging in community relations functions related to preventing hate crimes; or
“(II) conducted regular public meetings or educational forums on the impact of hate crimes, services available to victims of hate crimes, and any relevant Federal, State, or local laws related to hate crimes.
“(C) Hate crime.—The term ‘hate crime’ means—
“(i) an act described in section 1(b)(1) of the Hate Crime Statistics Act (34 U.S.C. 41305(b)(1)); and
“(ii) an act in violation of section 241, 245, 247, or 249 of title 18, United States Code.”. <all>
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