H-8069

   Amend House File 2220 as follows:
   1.  By striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting: 
   <Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  729A.2A  Hate crime —— religion.
   For purposes of this chapter, “hate crime”, when committed against a person or a person’s property because of the person’s religion, includes but is not limited to a hate crime motivated by antisemitism, Islamophobia, or discriminatory intent against the religious belief of evangelical Christians, atheists, agnostics, or a person with any other religious belief.>
   2.  Title page, by striking line 1 and inserting <An Act concerning hate crimes committed based on a person’s religion.>

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ABDUL-SAMAD of Polk