ESB 5623 — Modifying an element of the offense of hate crime and classifying a hate crime as crimes against persons.

What this bill does

Modifies the conduct that constitutes a Hate Crime offense to include when a person maliciously and intentionally assaults a victim because of the person's perception of certain characteristics about the victim. Modifies the circumstances where a trier of fact may infer that a person intended to threaten a victim to include when a person defaces the property of a victim who is or whom the person perceives to be of Jewish heritage with a Nazi emblem, symbol, or Hakenkreuz. Provides that a Hate Crime offense constitutes a crime against persons.

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Floor votes

• House — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 23, 2023
  89 yea · 9 nay
• Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 22, 2023
  33 yea · 16 nay

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