1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Stop Harmful and Abusive Telecommunications Expression Act of 2017 or the Stop HATE Act of 2017 . 2. Reports on the role of telecommunications in hate crimes (a) Periodic reports required Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and not less frequently than every 5 years thereafter, the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, with the assistance of the Attorney General, shall prepare and submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the role of telecommunications in violent acts and the commission of crimes of hate, as described in the Hate Crime Statistics Act ( 34 U.S.C. 41305 ), against individuals or groups of individuals on the basis of race, gender and gender identity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, color, or national origin. (b) Scope of reports A report required by subsection (a) shall— (1) analyze information on the use of telecommunications, including broadcast television and radio, cable television, public access television, computer bulletin boards, and other electronic media, to advocate and encourage violent acts and the commission of crimes of hate, as described in the Hate Crime Statistics Act ( 34 U.S.C. 41305 ), against individuals or groups of individuals on the basis of race, gender and gender identity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, color, or national origin; (2) include in the analysis required by paragraph (1) an analysis of— (A) the role that such telecommunications are playing in giving groups that advocate and encourage such violent acts and the commission of such crimes of hate a platform to spread their messages and to organize across the United States