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IN HB1093

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

1/3/2019

Primary Sponsor

Gregory Steuerwald

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Origin

House of Representatives

2019 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Adds bias motivation as a sentencing aggravating circumstance in Indiana, allowing courts to impose harsher sentences when crimes target individuals or groups based on real or perceived characteristics
  • Covers crimes against persons or property, including attacks on an individual, a group, or their property
  • Gives courts broad discretion to consider any characteristic, trait, belief, practice, association, or other attribute as the basis for bias motivation
  • Amends IC 35-38-1-7.1, the existing statute governing aggravating and mitigating circumstances in criminal sentencing
  • Effective date: July 1, 2019

Legislative Description

Bias crimes. Makes it an aggravating circumstance (for purposes of imposing a criminal sentence) that a crime was committed with bias and with the intent to harm or intimidate: (1) an individual; (2) a group of individuals; (3) the property of an individual; or (4) the property of a group of individuals; because of the individual's or the group's real or perceived characteristic, trait, belief, practice, association, or other attribute the court chooses to consider.

Last Action

Representative Goodin added as coauthor

1/17/2019

Committee Referrals

Courts and Criminal Code1/3/2019

Full Bill Text

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