1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Hate Crimes Commission Act of 2023 . 2. Findings The Congress finds as follows: (1) The Federal Bureau of Investigation (referred to in this section as the FBI ) defines a hate crime as a criminal offense—such as murder, arson, or vandalism—against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, color, national origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity. (2) Forty-six States and the District of Columbia have statutes criminalizing various types of bias-motivated violence or intimidation. (3) Congress has enacted various statutes to address hate crimes since 1968, with the most recent statute, the COVID–19 Hate Crimes Act ( Public Law 117–113 ; 135 Stat. 265), enacted in 2021. (4) In 2021, the FBI reported 10,840 single-bias incidents, an increase of nearly 12 percent from 2020. (5) Hate crimes not only damage the individual victim or victims, but also traumatize entire communities and erode public confidence in their safety. (6) In 2021— (A) 64.5 percent of victims were targeted because of the offender's race, ethnicity, or ancestry bias; (B) 15.9 percent of victims were targeted because of the offender's sexual orientation bias; (C) 14.1 percent of victims were targeted because of the offender's religious bias; (D) 3.2 percent of victims were targeted because of the offender's gender identity bias; (E) 1.4 percent of victims were targeted because of the offender's disability bias