Improving Reporting to Prevent Hate Act of 2026

This bill would require the U.S. Attorney General, within 3 years, to set up a method to judge whether large local governments are credibly reporting hate crimes, using data collected under the Hate Crime Statistics Act. The review would look at whether a jurisdiction reported no hate crime data to the FBI or reported zero hate crime incidents for a year. Local governments with more than 100,000 people that seek certain federal justice grants and are found not to have credibly reported would lose eligibility for those grants the next fiscal year. An exception applies if the Attorney General certifies that the jurisdiction has carried out specified hate crime education, awareness, or reporting efforts, and the Attorney General would publish a yearly online report listing those certified jurisdictions.

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Sponsors

• Mazie K. Hirono Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors