1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Hate Crime Victim Assistance Act of 2017 . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) Hate crimes have been on the rise over the previous years across the United States. In 2015, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 56.9 percent of single-bias incidents were motivated by either race, ethnicity or ancestry bias. (2) The same report mentions that 21.4 percent were prompted by religious bias; 18.1 percent sexual orientation bias; 2.0 percent gender-identity bias