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H.R. 3545: NO HATE Act

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H.R. 3545: NO HATE Act

116th Congress · introduced 2019-06-27 · Crime and Law Enforcement · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

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Follow this bill, step by step

  1. Where it came from: introduced 2019-06-27 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Beyer, Donald S., Jr. [D-VA-8] · 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 Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. 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

NO HATE Act

Plain summary

National Opposition to Hate, Assault, and Threats to Equality Act of 2019 or the NO HATE Act This bill establishes various grants within the Department of Justice for states and units of local government to improve law enforcement activities to address hate crimes, including by improving the reporting of hate crime data to relevant national systems. It also allows a court to order, as a penalty for a violation of a federal hate crime statute, a defendant to participate in educational classes or community service related to the community harmed by the defendant's offense as part of a supervised release.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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What does this mean? (plain words)

Official text

NO HATE Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Beyer, Donald S., Jr. [D-VA-8] · 103 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Don Bacon (R-NE), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA), David P. Joyce (R-OH), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Mike Bost (R-IL), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Haley M. Stevens (D-MI), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Grace Meng (D-NY), Scott H. Peters (D-CA), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX), Sharice Davids (D-KS), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), André Carson (D-IN), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Mark Pocan (D-WI) and 43 more.

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Beyer, Donald S., Jr. [D-VA-8] reported raising $2.5 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Words on this page, explained (2)
Bill
A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).
Statute
A written law passed by a legislature. A statute can be changed by a later law; changing a constitution needs an amendment.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong116-hr3545 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116