Vote set today on bias-crime bill

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Vote set today on bias-crime bill
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By BOB MAKIN
STAFF WRITER

Clergy in New Jersey fear legislation to tighten bias-crime laws will limit free speech. But at least one clergyman — and a Middlesex County legislator who co-sponsored the bill — said those concerns are misplaced.

On Thursday, the state Senate unanimously passed a bill to amend the 1993 law to specifically include gender identity and national origin and to broaden the law to include school bullying and to establish the Commission on Bullying in Schools."