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Senate Removes Biases From Proposed Hate Crimes Bill

The Indiana Senate has removed sexual orientation, gender identity, race and a list of other characteristics from a hate crimes bill.

The Senate voted Tuesday on amendments which would have allowed judges to impose additional penalties against anyone convicted of committing crimes fueled by those and other biases.  The Senate voted to add that judges can consider bias, more generally, as an aggravating circumstance.

Governor Eric Holcomb supported the original bill and said the version approved Tuesday “does not get Indiana off the list of states without a bias crime law.”

 

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