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Bill Title: Bias crimes. Allows an individual who suffers a personal injury or property damage because of a criminal offense or delinquent act to bring a civil action to recover damages, including punitive damages, if the person who committed the criminal offense or delinquent act that caused the injury or property damage selected the individual because of the individual's actual or perceived race, color, creed, disability, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity. Establishes a sentencing procedure that requires a court, when sentencing an individual who has committed a crime that is motivated by a bias against another individual's race, color, creed, disability, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity, to impose an additional fixed term of imprisonment not to exceed five years, if the offense is a felony, or three years, if the offense is a misdemeanor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-31 - Senator Stoops added as coauthor [SB0469 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2019-SB0469-Introduced.pdf

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