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Oregon’s attorney general urges lawmakers to strengthen state’s hate crime law

Oregon’s attorney general urges lawmakers to strengthen state’s hate crime law

The proposed bill, Senate Bill 577, would make violence or the immediate threat of violence, based on a person’s membership in a protected class, a felony. Gender identity would be added as a “protected class,’’ and the name of the offense would change from “intimidation’’ to a bias crime of the first- or second-degree to better reflect its nature, Attorney General Ellen F. Rosenblum said