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113th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1136
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 13, 2013
Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas (for herself, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Ms. Norton, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mr. Rangel, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Gutierrez, and Ms. Loretta Sanchez of California) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend the Hate Crime Statistics Act to include crimes against the homeless.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the
Violence Against the Homeless
Accountability Act of 2013
.
Inclusion of homeless
Section 1(b) of the Hate Crime Statistics Act ( 28 U.S.C. 534 note) is amended—
in paragraph (1),
by inserting homeless status,
after sexual
orientation,
; and
by adding at the end the following:
As used in this
subsection, the term homeless status
with respect to an
individual, refers to an individual who—
lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence; or
has a primary nighttime residence that is—
a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings, including cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings;
a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations, including motels, hotels, congregate shelters, and transitional housing; or
housing of other persons in which the individual is temporarily staying due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason.
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