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S Amdt 3473 - Hate Crimes Amendment - Key Vote
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Amendment - Amendment Adopted (Senate) (57-42) - June 20, 2000 (Key vote)
Title: Hate Crimes Amendment
Vote to adopt an amendment that expands hate crime definitions and enhances the federal government's ability to investigate and prosecute hate crimes.
- Expands hate crime definitions to include gender, sexual orientation and disability.
- Appropriates $5 million during each of the two years following enactment to assist state and local law enforcement officials in investigating and prosecuting hate crimes.
- Allows the federal government to pursue hate crime cases if offenders have committed crimes in more than one state, if local law enforcement officials have difficulty paying for the investigation or prosecuting the crime, or if local officials do not press charges.
- Requires the Justice Department to certify before prosecution that hate was a motivating factor in the crime.
Sponsors
- Edward M. 'Ted' Kennedy Sr. (MA - D) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Barbara Boxer (CA - D)
- Lincoln D. 'Linc' Chafee (RI - R) (Out Of Office)
- Susan M. Collins (ME - R)
- Thomas A. 'Tom' Daschle (SD - ) (Out Of Office)
- Christopher J. 'Chris' Dodd (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Richard J. 'Dick' Durbin (IL - D)
- Dianne Feinstein (CA - D)
- Daniel Robert 'Bob' Graham (FL - ) (Out Of Office)
- Thomas 'Tom' Harkin (IA - D)
- James Merrill 'Jim' Jeffords (VT - I) (Out Of Office)
- Patrick J. Leahy (VT - D)
- Carl Levin (MI - D)
- Barbara A. Mikulski (MD - D)
- John Francis 'Jack' Reed (RI - D)
- Charles E. 'Chuck' Schumer (NY - D)
- Gordon Harold Smith (OR - R) (Out Of Office)
- Robert G. 'Bob' Torricelli (NJ - D) (Out Of Office)
- Paul D. Wellstone (MN - D) (Out Of Office)
- Ron Wyden (OR - D)