The bill stated that existing Federal law was inadequate to address violence motivated by race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or disability of the victim. It called for the revision of Section 246* of title 18 of the United States Code as well as the addition of a subsection outlining the punishment for anyone found guilty of a hate crime.
The bill asserted that current federal laws were not equipped to address violence motivated by prejudice against individuals based on their characteristics, and it aimed to revise Section 246* of the United States Code and introduce a new subsection outlining penalties for hate crimes.