# 119-hr-2588: Improving Reporting to Prevent Hate Act of 2025

119-hr-2588, Improving Reporting to Prevent Hate Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Beyer, Donald S. [D-VA-8] (D-VA); status introduced (as of 2026-09-17).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-2588
- Congress: 119
- Title: Improving Reporting to Prevent Hate Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-04-02
- Sponsor: Rep. Beyer, Donald S. [D-VA-8] (D-VA)
- Cosponsors: 7
- Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-17

## Summary

**Ties federal grants to credible local hate-crime reporting.** This bill would require the Attorney General to judge whether larger local governments credibly report hate crimes to the FBI and bar grant allocations for those that fail, while allowing a certification exemption for jurisdictions that carry out significant public education and reporting reforms. - Covered local governments: A "covered jurisdiction" is a unit of local government with a population over 100,000 that requests relevant grants. If a jurisdiction is found not to credibly report hate crimes it would be ineligible for allocations under the amended grant subpart. - Communities and victims: Jurisdictions may avoid the penalty by certifying they have done substantial public education and either improved reporting systems and policies or created specialized units and ongoing public forums. That pathway aims to increase awareness, victim services information, and more complete data. - Department of Justice duties: The Attorney General would have to develop an evaluation method using data from the Hate Crimes Statistics Act within three years and publish an annual DOJ report listing jurisdictions certified for the exception.

## Cosponsors (7)

- Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2] (R-NE), 2025-04-02T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1] (R-PA), 2025-04-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-28] (D-CA), 2025-04-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Suozzi, Thomas R. [D-NY-3] (D-NY), 2025-09-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Kim, Young [R-CA-40] (R-CA), 2025-09-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Kean, Thomas H. [R-NJ-7] (R-NJ), 2026-09-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-FL-25] (D-FL), 2026-09-15T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Education efforts could protect local grants: benefit, medium. A jurisdiction that fails the reporting check could keep its grant eligibility if the Attorney General certifies major public education and awareness work on hate crimes. One path would require progress toward full reporting, a formal policy, and a system to send data to the FBI’s incident-based re…
- Grants tied to credible hate-crime reporting: cost, medium. Beginning no later than three years after enactment, the Attorney General would check local hate-crime reporting each year. The check would use data collected under the Hate Crimes Statistics Act. DOJ would flag when a covered jurisdiction failed to report or reported zero incidents to the FBI. If…

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## Sources
- [119-hr-2588 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2588)

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- [119-hr-4206: CONNECT for Health Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4206)
- [119-hr-1065: Protect Our Letter Carriers Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1065)
- [119-hr-3514: Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3514)
- [119-hr-2048: Metastatic Breast Cancer Access to Care Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2048)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2588 (as of 2026-09-17).