Following is the 57-to-42 roll-call vote by which the Senate voted today to expand a federal hate-crimes law.

She added that Mr. Bush had rejected her family's pleas to memorialize him with a statewide hate-crimes law.

But because they could still face charges under the state's hate-crimes law, the students' lawyers said, they could not offer apologies or admissions of guilt.

"The law historically has gone against punishing people for their thoughts, and that is what hate-crimes laws do," Ms. Anders said.

Mr. Geringer said that Dennis Shepard also said: "Don't rush into just passing all kinds of new hate-crimes laws.

The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously struck down the state's four-year-old hate-crimes law on Monday, saying it was "unconstitutionally vague."

But the court said the hate-crimes law established a sentence for additional conduct, selecting the victim.

While hate-crimes laws cannot enhance the penalties for murder, not all hate crimes are deadly.

By 2000, when the state enacted its hate-crimes law, the number had dropped to 467.

Texas already has a five-year-old hate-crimes law that provides a stricter penalty for crimes motivated by hatred of a group, though it does not specify which groups.