Current Version
| Region | California |
| Issue | LGBT discrimination |
| Status | Illegal |
| Start Date | Aug 17, 2004 |
| End Date | now |
| Description | Defines a hate crime as a criminal act committed because the victim's perceived: disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. Protections also include gender identification. Also, In 2014, California became the first state in the U.S. to officially ban the use of gay panic and transgender panic defenses in murder trials. |
| Sources | http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/03-04/bill/sen/sb_1201-1250/sb_1234_cfa_20040824_101623_sen_floor.html |
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| Description | Defines a hate crime as a criminal act committed because the victim's perceived: disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. Protections also include gender identification. | Defines a hate crime as a criminal act committed because the victim's perceived: disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. Protections also include gender identification. Also, In 2014, California became the first state in the U.S. to officially ban the use of gay panic and transgender panic defenses in murder trials. |
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| Description | Defines a hate crime as a criminal act commited because the victim's perceived: disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. | Defines a hate crime as a criminal act committed because the victim's perceived: disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. Protections also include gender identification. |
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| Original entry | |
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| Status | Illegal |
| Start Date | Aug 17, 2004 |
| End Date | now |
| Description | Defines a hate crime as a criminal act commited because the victim's perceived: disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. |
| Sources | http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/03-04/bill/sen/sb_1201-1250/sb_1234_cfa_20040824_101623_sen_floor.html |