[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5546 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5546

 To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of 
  higher education to track and record additional information on hate 
                    crimes, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 23, 2025

Mr. Espaillat introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                  Committee on Education and Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of 
  higher education to track and record additional information on hate 
                    crimes, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Combating Hate Across Campus Act''.

SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE OF CAMPUS SECURITY POLICY AND CAMPUS CRIME 
              STATISTICS.

    Section 485(f)(1)(F)(ii) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 1092(f)(1)(F)(ii)) is amended by striking ``which data shall be 
collected and reported according to category of prejudice;'' and 
inserting ``which data shall--
                            ``(I) be collected and reported according 
                        to category of prejudice; and
                            ``(II) disaggregated by subcategory based 
                        on the identity of the targeted individual or 
                        group, as listed in the most recently available 
                        Hate Crime Data Collection Guidelines and 
                        Training Manual published by the Criminal 
                        Justice Information Services Division of the 
                        Federal Bureau of Investigation;''.
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