Bill Title: Bias motivated offenses. Provides that a bias motivated crime is an offense in which the person who committed the offense intentionally: (1) selected the person who was injured; or (2) damaged or otherwise affected property; by the offense because of the actual or perceived color, creed, disability, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity of the injured person or of the owner or occupant of the affected property. Enhances the penalties for the following offenses one level if the offense is a bias motivated crime: (1) Battery. (2) Aggravated battery. (3) Strangulation. (4) Kidnapping. (5) Criminal confinement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-01-06 - First Reading: referred to Committee on Corrections & Criminal Law [SB0180 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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