2009 House Bill 4836 ↩

House Roll Call 248: The substitute was not adopted

To replace the previous version of the bill with one that does not change the penalties in the current law against “ethnic intimidation” or the law’s requirement that a perpertrator have a “specific intent” to harrass or intimidate another on the basis of belonging to a protected class, and which replaces a list of named protected class classes or groups in the introduced bill with requirement that the victim be targeted on the basis of unspecified “common characteristics” with any group. It would also create an explicit new crime of hanging nooses and cross-burnings on a person’s property with the intent to intimidate.