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■ AUSTIN (AP) — One day, Stella
Byrd hopes to sit her great-grandchild
on her lap and tell the child that her
grandfather’s death was not in vain.
Ilf Texas lawmakers pass the
James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act,
named in remembrance of Stella
Byrd’s son, she says she will be able
to do that. The House Judicial Affairs
Committee approved the bill on a 7-
2R , ote Monday after hearing from
Stella Byrd and others.
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plain with what happened with this
bil and maybe that will help her grow
stronger,” Stella Byrd told the panel.
■ The bill is meant to toughen
penalties for crimes directed against
minorities, gays, women and other
groups. A similar bill has passed
Bough a Senate committee. Reps.
Will Hartnett of Irving and Robert
Taiton of Pasadena, the only Repub-
llans on the committee, voted
against the bill Monday.
I "I oppose anything that does not
treai everybody equally,” Taiton said.
■ James Byrd Jr. was a black man
from Jasper who was dragged to his
death behind a pickup truck in 1998.
.Three white supremacists were con
victed of capital murder. Two are
awaiting execution and the third is
serving life in prison.
I The full House approved a James
Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act during the
1999 legislative session, but the bill
died in a Senate committee when
critics said it created unnecessary
distinctions for homosexuals.
This year’s bill now goes to the
House Calendars Committee, al
though bill sponsor, Senfronia
Thompson, D-Houston, said she will
wait to act on the bill until the full
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this bill.’’
— Stella Byrd
mother of James Byrd Jr.
Senate takes action on the Senate
hate crimes bill.
“I know I could pass it in the
House,” Thompson said when the
hearing ended, after nearly five hours
of testimony.
The proposed bill enhances the
penalty for crimes motivated by race,
religion, color, disability, sexual ori
entation, age, gender and national ori
gin ancestry. It also would require that
a jury determine the motive of a hate
crime be proven beyond a reasonable
doubt, require counties to annually
report hate crime prosecutions to the
state, provide aid to smaller counties
for prosecuting hate crimes, place a
hate crimes coordinator in the attor
ney general’s office and call for civil
remedies.
Texas passed its first hate-crime
bill in 1993. That law increased
penalties if a crime was proven to be
“motivated by bias and prejudice” but
prosecutors have criticized it as too
vague and virtually unenforceable.
Detractors say this bill punishes
people for their thoughts and protects
only certain classes of people.
“Hating all people is just as bad as
hating a group,” said Marc Levin, the
vice chairman of the Young Conser
vatives of Texas.
“This bill protects everyone
equally because everyone has a race,
a color, a nationality or a sexual ori
entation,” Thompson said.
The bill does not intrude on any
one’s freedom of speech, Thompson
said, because the bill calls for pun
ishment of behavior, not punishment
of thoughts.
Maria Ross of Katy said federal of
ficials had to step in to help her get jus
tice after she woke up on June 19 to
find a cross burning in her front yard.
“When I walked outside I thought 1
was in the twilight zone,” said Ross.
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Clinton speaks to software developers
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Bill Clinton, shunning dis
cussion of the Marc Rich pardon, told business software
and Internet specialists Monday he was
foi lunate to be president while their in-
litinil idustry blossomed.
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tors gathered outside the hall protest-
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technology til ■Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp. CEO, introduced Clinton
be anythin: as ;l courageous leader whose aggressive moves to foster
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Civil Libem ^ cniocrat ’ c P art y — gave America’s technology leaders
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ing partners. Clinton was paid for the speech, but the fee
was not disclosed. He was paid $100,000 for his first
speaking engagement after leaving the White House.
Clinton praised his audience for taking a leading role in
America’s prosperity during most of the past decade, and
said, despite the recent downturn in technology stocks, the
Internet would remain central to economic growth.
“I know there have been a few dot-coms falling on the
NASDAQ for the last several months, but don’t kid your
selves, the Internet is still our future,” Clinton said.
Clinton told the technology leaders it was up to them
to use their new political influence to support interna
tional trade, debt reduction and “dramatic” increases in
spending on research and development.
Clinton also called on the industry to join govern
ment in exploring ways to make key consumer tech
nology more available and easier to use for the poor
and less educated.
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