This report of the Judiciary Committee, together with dissenting views, recommends passage of H.R. 1592 (short title—Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007), a bill to “provide federal assistance to states, local jurisdictions, and Indian tribes to prosecute hate crimes…”. The bill would “provide assistance to state and local law enforcement in the investigation and prosecution of hate crimes, and would amend chapter 13 of title 18, United States Code, to make violent crimes against a person motivated by bias against characteristics for which there is a history of such bias-motivated violence a felony. It would also amend the Hate Crime Statistics Act to require the collection of data on violent crimes motivated by bias against the victim’s perceived gender or gender identity, as well as data on crimes committed by and directed against juveniles.”