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House Judiciary committee’s strike-all amendment to H.118 approved; third reading ordered
Summary
The House approved the Judiciary Committee’s strike-all amendment to H.118, which would expand Vermont’s hate-motivated-crime penalty enhancement to cover conduct directed at other persons or groups; the chamber then ordered third reading.
The House approved a Judiciary Committee strike-all amendment to H.118, an act relating to expanding the scope of hate-motivated crimes, and then ordered the bill read a third time.
The committee-reporter, the member from Williston, explained that the bill replaces language in the hate-motivated-crime statute that refers to “the victim's actual or perceived protected category” with language allowing an enhancement when the conduct is motivated by “another person or a group of persons’ actual or perceived membership in a protected category.” The amendment would broaden the operation of…
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