HB 787

Abstract

Multi-jurisdiction grand jury; hate crimes. Adds the following to the list of crimes that a multi-jurisdiction grand jury may investigate: (i) simple assault or assault and battery where the victim was intentionally selected because of his race, religious conviction, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, or national origin; (ii) entering the property of another for purposes of damaging such property or its contents or interfering with the rights of the owner, user, or occupant where such property was intentionally selected because of the race, religious conviction, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, or national origin of the owner, user, or occupant; and (iii) various offenses that tend to cause violence.

Multi-jurisdiction grand jury; hate crimes.Adds the following to the list of crimes that a multi-jurisdictiongrand jury may investigate: (i) simple assault or assault and batterywhere the victim was intentionally selected because of his race,religious conviction, color, or national origin; (ii) entering theproperty of another for purposes of damaging such property or itscontents or interfering with the rights of the owner, user, or occupant where such property was intentionally selected because of the race,religious conviction, color, or national origin of the owner, user,or occupant; and (iii) various offenses that tend to cause violence.