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{{Infobox U.S. legislation
| shorttitle        = Hate Crime Statistics Act
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| longtitle         = An Act to provide for the acquisition and publication of data about crimes that manifest prejudice based on certain group characteristics. 
| colloquialacronym = HCSA
| nickname          = Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990
| enacted by        = 101st
| effective date    = April 23, 1990
| public law url    = http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-104/pdf/STATUTE-104-Pg140.pdf
| cite public law   = 101-275
| cite statutes at large = {{usstat|104|140}}
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| title amended   = [[Title 28 of the United States Code|28 U.S.C.: Judiciary and Judicial Procedure]]
| sections created = <!--{{USC}} can be used-->
| sections amended = {{usc|28|534}}
| leghisturl      = http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d101:HR01048:@@@R
| introducedin    = House
| introducedbill  = {{USBill|101|H.R.|1048}}
| introducedby    = [[John Conyers]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|D]]–[[Michigan|MI]])
| introduceddate  = February 22, 1989
| committees      = [[United States House Committee on the Judiciary|House Judiciary]], [[United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|Senate Judiciary]]
| passedbody1     = House
| passeddate1     = June 27, 1989
| passedvote1     = [http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/101-1989/h101 368-47]
| passedbody2     = Senate
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| passeddate2     = February 8, 1990
| passedvote2     = 92-4 {{US Senate Vote|101|2|13}}, in lieu of {{USBill|101|S.|419}}
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| agreedbody3     = House
| agreeddate3     = April 4, 1990
| agreedvote3     = 402-18 {{US House Vote|1990|066}}
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| signedpresident = [[George H. W. Bush]]
| signeddate      = April 23, 1990
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The '''Hate Crime Statistics Act''', [https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/resources/hate-crime-2010-hate-crime-statistics-act 28 U.S.C. § 534] (HCSA), passed in 1990 and modified in 2009 by the [[Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/resources/hate-crime-2010-hate-crime-statistics-act|title=FBI — Hate Crime Statistics Act|work=FBI}}</ref> requires the [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]] to collect data on crimes committed because of the victim's race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity.  The bill was signed into law by [[George H. W. Bush]], and was the first federal statute to "recognize and name gay, lesbian and bisexual people."<ref>[http://www.thetaskforce.org/issues/hate_crimes_main_page/timeline Hate Crimes Protections Timeline] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140401073246/http://www.thetaskforce.org/issues/hate_crimes_main_page/timeline |date=2014-04-01 }}, [[National Gay and Lesbian Task Force]].  Retrieved on 05-04-2007.</ref> Since 1992, the [[United States Department of Justice|Department of Justice]] through one of its agencies, the [[FBI]], has jointly published an annual report on hate crime statistics.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2004/openpage.htm |title=Hate Crime Statistics, 2004 |website=Federal Bureau of Investigation |publisher=U.S. Department of Justice}}
</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/december/latest-hate-crime-statistics-report-released/|title=FBI — Latest Hate Crime Statistics Report Released|work=FBI}}</ref>

On November 16, 2020, the FBI released its 2019 Hate Crime Statistics Act (HCSA) report with the total number of reported hate crime incidents rising 2.7% to 7,317 (2019) from  7,120 (2018).<ref>{{Cite web|title=About Hate Crime Statistics|url=https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2019/resource-pages/about-hate-crime|access-date=2020-11-16|website=FBI|language=en-us}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:1990 in American law]]
[[Category:United States federal criminal legislation]]
[[Category:Hate crime in the United States]]
[[Category:1990 in LGBTQ history]]
[[Category:LGBTQ law in the United States]]


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