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119-hr-9066119th Congress

Community-Based Approaches to Prevent and Address Hate Crimes Act of 2026

Sponsored By: Representative Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]

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Summary

Creates a new federal grant program to fund community-based approaches to prevent and respond to hate crimes. It targets grants to nonprofit organizations embedded in or led by communities defined by race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, disability, and other vulnerable groups, and lists specific allowable uses like education, victim support, and diversion programs.

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  • Community organizations: Local nonprofit groups that serve targeted communities can apply for grants to run public education, conflict resolution, community empowerment, safety ambassador programs, and multilingual outreach.
  • Targeted communities and survivors: Grants can fund culturally informed, linguistically accessible mental health care and victim support, escorted safety in public places, and public reporting campaigns to improve data on hate crimes.
  • Justice response and defendants: Funding can support non-carceral sentencing, juvenile hate crime diversion, and educational or community service programs for offenders. The bill also removes an existing grant amount cap for certain criminal investigations and prosecutions, allowing larger awards under that authority.

*Authorizes $30 million per year for fiscal years 2027 through 2031, totaling $150 million in authorized spending.*

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Analyzed Economic Effects

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Grants for communities targeted by hate

If enacted, the Attorney General would set up a hate-crime prevention grant program on the date of enactment, subject to appropriations. The program would be authorized $30,000,000 for each fiscal year 2027 through 2031. Eligible community-based nonprofit groups that serve communities targeted by hate crimes would apply in the form and at the time the Attorney General requires. Grants would pay for community conflict-resolution and empowerment, non-carceral sentencing and juvenile diversion, culturally and linguistically appropriate public education and victim support (including mental health), safety ambassadors, and upstander and de-escalation trainings.

Remove grant amount cap

If enacted, the bill would strike an existing paragraph that set a statutory cap on grant amounts in current law (34 U.S.C. 30503(b)). That change would let agencies and eligible organizations receive larger or more flexible awards for certain criminal investigations and prosecutions. The amendment does not itself appropriate new money or set new funding levels.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]

NY • D

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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