COVID–19 Hate Crimes Act
Latest action · May 5, 2020 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 5, 2020
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act
This bill requires a designated officer or employee of the Department of Justice to facilitate the expedited review of COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) hate crimes and reports of COVID-19 hate crimes.
It defines COVID-19 hate crime as a violent crime that is motivated by two things: (1) the actual or perceived characteristic (e.g., race) of any person, and (2) the actual or perceived relationship to the spread of COVID-19 of any person because of that characteristic.
The designated officer or employee must periodically report on the status of each case reviewed.
Cosponsors 34
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 5, 2020 to Nov 18, 2020; 19 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NY | Adriano Espaillat | Original | May 5, 2020 |
| D-CA | Alan S. Lowenthal | Original | May 5, 2020 |
| D-NY | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Original | May 5, 2020 |
| D-CA | Anna G. Eshoo | Original | May 5, 2020 |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | May 5, 2020 |
| D-NJ | Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Original | May 5, 2020 |
| D-NJ | Bonnie Watson Coleman | Original | May 5, 2020 |
| D-WA | Derek Kilmer | Original | May 5, 2020 |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Original | May 5, 2020 |
| D-NY | Eliot L. Engel | Original | May 5, 2020 |
| D-CA | Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. | Original | May 5, 2020 |
| D-CA | Grace F. Napolitano | Original | May 5, 2020 |
| D-CT | Jahana Hayes | Original | May 5, 2020 |
| D-MA | Joseph P. Kennedy III | Original | May 5, 2020 |
| D-NY | Nydia M. Velázquez | Original | May 5, 2020 |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Original | May 5, 2020 |
| D-MA | Stephen F. Lynch | Original | May 5, 2020 |
| D-CA | Ted Lieu | Original | May 5, 2020 |
| D-NY | Thomas R. Suozzi | Original | May 5, 2020 |
| D-TX | Al Green | May 8, 2020 | |
| D-MD | David J. Trone | May 8, 2020 | |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne, Jr. | May 8, 2020 | |
| D-MO | Emanuel Cleaver | May 8, 2020 | |
| D-CA | Jim Costa | May 8, 2020 | |
| D-CA | Judy Chu | May 8, 2020 | |
| D-CA | Mark Takano | May 8, 2020 | |
| D-GU | Michael F. Q. San Nicolas | May 8, 2020 | |
| D-WA | Pramila Jayapal | May 8, 2020 | |
| D-WA | Adam Smith | May 14, 2020 | |
| D-PA | Brendan F. Boyle | Jun 24, 2020 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Jun 24, 2020 | |
| D-NY | Max Rose | Jun 24, 2020 | |
| D-NY | Kathleen M. Rice | Jul 16, 2020 | |
| D-CA | Jimmy Gomez | Nov 18, 2020 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred May 5, 2020 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 5, 2020Introduced in House
- May 5, 2020Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 166, no. 84, May 5, 2020, page H1979.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To facilitate the expedited review of COVID-19 hate crimes, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- COVID–19 Hate Crimes Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Congressional oversight
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Crime victims
- Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
- Criminal justice information and records
- Department of Justice
- Disability and health-based discrimination
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Federal officials
- Hate crimes
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Racial and ethnic relations
- Religion
- Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 5, 2020Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
