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H.R. 4527: Stop HATE Act of 2017

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H.R. 4527: Stop HATE Act of 2017

115th Congress · introduced 2017-12-01 · Science, Technology, Communications · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2017-12-01 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-15] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Stop HATE Act of 2017

Plain summary

Stop Harmful and Abusive Telecommunications Expression Act of 2017 or the Stop HATE Act of 2017 This bill requires the Department of Commerce and the Department of Justice to report about the role of telecommunications in violent acts and the commission of crimes of hate against individuals or groups of individuals on the basis of race, gender and gender identity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, color, or national origin. The report must analyze information about the use of telecommunications to advocate and encourage violent acts and the commission of crimes of hate, including: (1) the role that such telecommunications are playing in giving groups that advocate and commit such crimes a platform to spread their messages and to organize; (2) how such use and the role of telecommunications have changed with new forms of communication on the Internet and other electronic media; and (3) any recommendations, consistent with the First Amendment, necessary to address such use and such role of telecommunications.

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Official text

Stop HATE Act of 2017

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-15] · 37 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Hakeem S. Jeffries (D-NY), Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA), Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL), Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Katherine M. Clark (D-MA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), André Carson (D-IN), Grace Meng (D-NY), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA), Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Dina Titus (D-NV), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Ro Khanna (D-CA)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr4527 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115