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108TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 2718 

To provide for programs and activities with respect to the prevention of 

underage drinking. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JULY 22, 2004 

Mr. DEWINE (for himself and Mr. DODD) introduced the following bill; which 

was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, 

Labor, and Pensions 

A BILL

To provide for programs and activities with respect to the 

prevention of underage drinking.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

4 (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 

5 ‘‘Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act’’, or 

6 the ‘‘STOP Underage Drinking Act’’. 

7 (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 

8 this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 

Sec. 2. Findings. 

Sec. 3. Definitions. 
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TITLE I—SENSE OF CONGRESS 

Sec. 101. Sense of Congress. 

TITLE II—INTERAGENCY COORDINATING COMMITTEE; ANNUAL 

REPORT CARD 

Sec. 201. Establishment of interagency coordinating committee to prevent underage drinking. 

Sec. 202. Annual report card. 

Sec. 203. Authorization of appropriations. 

TITLE III—NATIONAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN 

Sec. 301. National media campaign to prevent underage drinking. 

TITLE IV—INTERVENTIONS 

Sec. 401. Community-based coalition enhancement grants to prevent underage 

drinking. 

Sec. 402. Grants directed at reducing higher-education alcohol abuse. 

TITLE V—ADDITIONAL RESEARCH 

Sec. 501. Additional research on underage drinking. 

Sec. 502. Authorization of appropriations.

1 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

2 The Congress finds as follows: 

3 (1) Drinking alcohol under the age of 21 is ille4 gal in each of the 50 States and the District of Co5 lumbia. Enforcement of current laws and regulations 

6 in States and communities, such as minimum age 

7 drinking laws, zero tolerance laws, and laws and reg8 ulations which restrict availability of alcohol, must 

9 supplement other efforts to reduce underage drink10 ing. 

11 (2) Data collected annually by the Department 

12 of Health and Human Services shows that alcohol is 

13 the most heavily used drug by children in the United 

14 States, and that— 
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1 (A) more youths consume alcoholic bev2 erages than use tobacco products or illegal 

3 drugs; 

4 (B) by the end of the eighth grade, 45.6 

5 percent of children have engaged in alcohol use, 

6 and by the end of high school, 76.6 percent 

7 have done so; and 

8 (C) the annual societal cost of underage 

9 drinking is estimated at $53 to $58 billion. 

10 (3) Data collected by the Department of Health 

11 and Human Services and the Department of Trans12 portation indicate that alcohol use by youth has 

13 many negative consequences, such as immediate risk 

14 from acute impairment; traffic fatalities; violence; 

15 suicide; and unprotected sex. 

16 (4) Research confirms that the harm caused by 

17 underage drinking lasts beyond the underage years. 

18 Compared to persons who wait until age 21 or older 

19 to start drinking, those who start to drink before 

20 age 14 are, as adults, four times more likely to be21 come alcohol dependent; seven times more likely to 

22 be in a motor vehicle crash because of drinking; and 

23 more likely to suffer mental and physical damage 

24 from alcohol abuse. 
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1 (5) Alcohol abuse creates long-term risk devel2 opmentally and is associated with negative physical 

3 impacts on the brain. 

4 (6) Research indicates that adults greatly un5 derestimate the extent of alcohol use by youths, its 

6 negative consequences, and its use by their own chil7 dren. The IOM report concluded that underage 

8 drinking cannot be successfully addressed by focus9 ing on youth alone. Ultimately, adults are respon10 sible for young people obtaining alcohol by selling, 

11 providing, or otherwise making it available to them. 

12 Parents are the most important channel of influence 

13 on their children’s underage drinking, according to 

14 the IOM report, which also recommends a national 

15 adult-oriented media campaign. 

16 (7) Research shows that public service health 

17 messages, in combination with community-based ef18 forts, can reduce health-damaging behavior. The De19 partment of Health and Human Services and the Ad 

20 Council have undertaken a public health campaign 

21 targeted at parents to combat underage alcohol con22 sumption. The Ad Council estimates that, for a typ23 ical public health campaign, it receives an average of 

24 $28 million per year in free media through its 

25 28,000 media outlets nationwide. 
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1 (8) A significant percentage of the total alcohol 

2 consumption in the United States each year is by 

3 underage youth. The Substance Abuse and Mental 

4 Health Services Administration reports that the per5 centage is over 11 percent. 

6 (9) Youth are exposed to a significant amount 

7 of alcohol advertising through a variety of media. 

8 Some studies indicate that youth awareness of alco9 hol advertising correlates to their drinking behavior 

10 and beliefs. 

11 (10) According to the Center on Alcohol Mar12 keting and Youth, in 2002, the alcoholic beverage in13 dustry spent $990.2 million on product advertising 

14 on television, and $10 million on television adver15 tising designed to promote the responsible use of al16 cohol. For every one television ad discouraging un17 derage alcohol use, there were 609 product ads. 

18 (11) Alcohol use occurs in 76 percent of movies 

19 rated G or PG and 97 percent of movies rated PG–

20 3. The Federal Trade Commission has recommended 

21 restricting paid alcohol beverage promotional place22 ments to films rated R or NC–17. 

23 (12) Youth spend 9 to 11 hours per week lis24 tening to music, and 17 percent of all lyrics contain 
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1 alcohol references; 30 percent of those songs include 

2 brand-name mentions. 

3 (13) Studies show that adolescents watch 20 to 

4 27 hours of television each week, and 71 percent of 

5 prime-time television episodes depict alcohol use and 

6 77 percent contain some reference to alcohol. 

7 (14) College and university presidents have 

8 cited alcohol abuse as the number one health prob9 lem on college and university campuses. 

10 (15) According to the National Institute on Al11 cohol Abuse and Alcoholism, two of five college stu12 dents are binge drinkers; 1,400 college students die 

13 each year from alcohol-related injuries, a majority of 

14 which involve motor vehicle crashes; more than 

15 70,000 students are victims of alcohol-related sexual 

16 assault; and 500,000 students are injured under the 

17 influence of alcohol each year. 

18 (16) According to the Center on Alcohol Mar19 keting and Youth, in 2002, alcohol producers spent 

20 a total of $58 million to place 6,251 commercials in 

21 college sports programs, and spent $27.7 million ad22 vertising during the NCAA men’s basketball tour23 nament, which had as many alcohol ads (939) as the 

24 Super Bowl, World Series, College Bowl Games and 
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1 the National Football League’s Monday Night Foot2 ball broadcasts combined (925). 

3 (17) The IOM report recommended that col4 leges and universities ban alcohol advertising and 

5 promotion on campus in order to demonstrate their 

6 commitment to discouraging alcohol use among un7 derage students. 

8 (18) According to the Government Account9 ability Office (‘‘GAO’’), the Federal Government 

10 spends $1.8 billion annually to combat youth drug 

11 use and $71 million to prevent underage alcohol use. 

12 (19) The GAO concluded that there is a lack of 

13 reporting about how these funds are specifically ex14 pended, inadequate collaboration among the agen15 cies, and no central coordinating group or office to 

16 oversee how the funds are expended or to determine 

17 the effectiveness of these efforts. 

18 (20) There are at least three major, annual, 

19 government funded national surveys in the United 

20 States that include underage drinking data: the Na21 tional Household Survey on Drug Use and Health, 

22 Monitoring the Future, and the Youth Risk Behav23 ior Survey. These surveys do not use common indi24 cators to allow for direct comparison of youth alco-
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1 hol consumption patterns. Analyses of recent years’ 

2 data do, however, show similar results. 

3 (21) Research shows that school-based and 

4 community-based interventions can reduce underage 

5 drinking and associated problems, and that positive 

6 outcomes can be achieved by combining environ7 mental and institutional change with theory-based 

8 health education—a comprehensive, community9 based approach. 

10 (22) Studies show that a minority of youth who 

11 need treatment for their alcohol problems receive 

12 such services. Further, insufficient information ex13 ists to properly assist clinicians and other providers 

14 in their youth treatment efforts. 

15 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 

16 For purposes of this Act: 

17 (1) The term ‘‘binge drinking’’ means a pattern 

18 of drinking alcohol that brings blood alcohol con19 centration (BAC) to 0.08 gm percent or above. For 

20 the typical adult, this pattern corresponds to con21 suming 5 or more drinks (male), or 4 or more drinks 

22 (female), in about 2 hours. 

23 (2) The term ‘‘heavy drinking’’ means five or 

24 more drinks on the same occasion in the past 30 

25 days. 
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1 (3) The term ‘‘frequent heavy drinking’’ means 

2 five or more drinks on at least five occasions in the 

3 last 30 days. 

4 (4) The term ‘‘alcoholic beverage industry’’ 

5 means the brewers, vintners, distillers, importers, 

6 distributors, and retail outlets that sell and serve 

7 beer, wine, and distilled spirits. 

8 (5) The term ‘‘school-based prevention’’ means 

9 programs, which are institutionalized, and run by 

10 staff members or school-designated persons or orga11 nizations in every grade of school, kindergarten 

12 through 12th grade. 

13 (6) The term ‘‘youth’’ means persons under the 

14 age of 21. 

15 (7) The term ‘‘IOM report’’ means the report 

16 released in September 2003 by the National Re17 search Council, Institute of Medicine, and entitled 

18 ‘‘Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Respon19 sibility’’. 

20 TITLE I—SENSE OF CONGRESS 

21 SEC. 101. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

22 It is the sense of the Congress that: 

23 (1) A multi-faceted effort is needed to more 

24 successfully address the problem of underage drink25 ing in the United States. A coordinated approach to
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1 prevention, intervention, treatment, and research is 

2 key to making progress. This Act recognizes the 

3 need for a focused national effort, and addresses 

4 particulars of the Federal portion of that effort. 

5 (2) States and communities, including colleges 

6 and universities, are encouraged to adopt com7 prehensive prevention approaches, including— 

8 (A) evidence-based screening, programs 

9 and curricula; 

10 (B) brief intervention strategies; 

11 (C) consistent policy enforcement; and 

12 (D) environmental changes that limit un13 derage access to alcohol. 

14 (3) Public health and consumer groups have 

15 played an important role in drawing the Nation’s at16 tention to the health crisis of underage drinking. 

17 Working at the Federal, State, and community lev18 els, and motivated by grass-roots support, they have 

19 initiated effective prevention programs that have 

20 made significant progress in the battle against un21 derage drinking. 

22 (4) The alcohol beverage industry has developed 

23 and paid for national education and awareness mes24 sages on illegal underage drinking directed to par25 ents as well as consumers generally. According to 
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1 the industry, it has also supported the training of 

2 more than 1.6 million retail employees, community3 based prevention programs, point of sale education, 

4 and enforcement programs. All of these efforts are 

5 aimed at further reducing illegal underage drinking 

6 and preventing sales of alcohol to persons under the 

7 age of 21. All sectors of the alcohol beverage indus8 try have also voluntarily committed to placing adver9 tisements in broadcast and magazines where at least 

10 70 percent of the audiences are expected to be 21 

11 years of age or older. The industry should continue 

12 to monitor and tailor its advertising practices to fur13 ther limit underage exposure, including the use of 

14 independent third party review. The industry should 

15 continue and expand evidence-based efforts to pre16 vent underage drinking. 

17 (5) Public health and consumer groups, in col18 laboration with the alcohol beverage industry, should 

19 explore opportunities to reduce underage drinking. 

20 (6) The entertainment industries have a power21 ful impact on youth, and they should use rating sys22 tems and marketing codes to reduce the likelihood 

23 that underage audiences will be exposed to movies, 

24 recordings, or television programs with unsuitable 
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1 alcohol content, even if adults are expected to pre2 dominate in the viewing or listening audiences. 

3 (7) Objective scientific evidence and data should 

4 be generated and made available to the general pub5 lic and policy makers at the local, state, and national 

6 levels to help them make informed decisions, imple7 ment judicious policies, and monitor progress in pre8 venting childhood/adolescent alcohol use. 

9 (8) The National Collegiate Athletic Associa10 tion, its member colleges and universities, and ath11 letic conferences should affirm a commitment to a 

12 policy of discouraging alcohol use among underage 

13 students and other young fans by ending all alcohol 

14 advertising during radio and television broadcasts of 

15 collegiate sporting events. 

16 TITLE II—INTERAGENCY CO17 ORDINATING COMMITTEE; 

18 ANNUAL REPORT CARD 

19 SEC. 201. ESTABLISHMENT OF INTERAGENCY COORDI20 NATING COMMITTEE TO PREVENT UNDER21 AGE DRINKING. 

22 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 

23 Human Services, in collaboration with the Federal officials 

24 specified in subsection (b), shall establish an interagency 
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1 coordinating committee focusing on underage drinking 

2 (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Committee’’). 

3 (b) OTHER AGENCIES.—The officials referred to in 

4 subsection (a) are the Secretary of Education, the Attor5 ney General, the Secretary of Transportation, the Sec6 retary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Sur7 geon General, the Director of the Centers for Disease Con8 trol and Prevention, the Director of the National Institute 

9 on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the Administrator of the 

10 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administra11 tion, the Director of the National Institute on Drug 

12 Abuse, the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, 

13 the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, 

14 the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety 

15 Administration, the Administrator of the Office of Juve16 nile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Chairman of 

17 the Federal Trade Commission, and such other Federal 

18 officials as the Secretary of Health and Human Services 

19 determines to be appropriate. 

20 (c) CHAIR.—The Secretary of Health and Human 

21 Services shall serve as the chair of the Committee. 

22 (d) DUTIES.—The Committee shall guide policy and 

23 program development across the Federal Government with 

24 respect to underage drinking. 
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1 (e) CONSULTATIONS.—The Committee shall actively 

2 seek the input of and shall consult with all appropriate 

3 and interested parties, including public health research 

4 and interest groups, foundations, and alcohol beverage in5 dustry trade associations and companies. 

6 (f) ANNUAL REPORT.— 

7 (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 

8 Human Services, on behalf of the Committee, shall 

9 annually submit to the Congress a report that sum10 marizes— 

11 (A) all programs and policies of Federal 

12 agencies designed to prevent underage drinking; 

13 (B) the extent of progress in reducing un14 derage drinking nationally; 

15 (C) data that the Secretary shall collect 

16 with respect to the information specified in 

17 paragraph (2); and 

18 (D) such other information regarding un19 derage drinking as the Secretary determines to 

20 be appropriate. 

21 (2) CERTAIN INFORMATION.—The report under 

22 paragraph (1) shall include information on the fol23 lowing: 

24 (A) Patterns and consequences of under25 age drinking. 
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1 (B) Measures of the availability of alcohol 

2 to underage populations and the exposure of 

3 this population to messages regarding alcohol in 

4 advertising and the entertainment media. 

5 (C) Surveillance data, including informa6 tion on the onset and prevalence of underage 

7 drinking. 

8 (D) Any additional findings resulting from 

9 research conducted or supported under section 

10 501. 

11 (E) Evidence-based best practices to both 

12 prevent underage drinking and provide treat13 ment services to those youth who need them. 

14 SEC. 202. ANNUAL REPORT CARD. 

15 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 

16 Human Services (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Sec17 retary’’) shall, with input and collaboration from other ap18 propriate Federal agencies, States, Indian tribes, terri19 tories, and public health, consumer, and alcohol beverage 

20 industry groups, annually issue a ‘‘report card’’ to accu21 rately rate the performance of each state in enacting, en22 forcing, and creating laws, regulations, and programs to 

23 prevent or reduce underage drinking. The report card 

24 shall include ratings on outcome measures for categories 
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1 related to the prevalence of underage drinking in each 

2 State. 

3 (b) OUTCOME MEASURES.— 

4 (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall develop, 

5 in consultation with the Committee established in 

6 section 201, a set of outcome measures to be used 

7 in preparing the report card. 

8 (2) CATEGORIES.—In developing the outcome 

9 measures, the Secretary shall develop measures for 

10 categories related to the following: 

11 (A) The degree of strictness of the min12 imum drinking age laws and dram shop liability 

13 statutes in each State. 

14 (B) The number of compliance checks 

15 within alcohol retail outlets conducted measured 

16 against the number of total alcohol retail out17 lets in each State, and the results of such 

18 checks. 

19 (C) Whether or not the State mandates or 

20 otherwise provides training on the proper sell21 ing and serving of alcohol for all sellers and 

22 servers of alcohol as a condition of employment. 

23 (D) Whether or not the State has policies 

24 and regulations with regard to Internet sales 

25 and home delivery of alcoholic beverages. 
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1 (E) The number of adults in the State tar2 geted by State programs to deter adults from 

3 purchasing alcohol for minors. 

4 (F) The number of youths, parents, and 

5 caregivers who are targeted by State programs 

6 designed to deter underage drinking. 

7 (G) Whether or not the State has enacted 

8 graduated drivers licenses and the extent of 

9 those provisions. 

10 (H) The amount that the State invests, 

11 per youth capita, on the prevention of underage 

12 drinking, further broken down by the amount 

13 spent on— 

14 (i) compliance check programs in re15 tail outlets, including providing technology 

16 to prevent and detect the use of false iden17 tification by minors to make alcohol pur18 chases; 

19 (ii) checkpoints; 

20 (iii) community-based, school-based, 

21 and higher-education-based programs to 

22 prevent underage drinking; 

23 (iv) underage drinking prevention pro24 grams that target youth within the juvenile 

25 justice and child welfare systems; and 
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1 (v) other State efforts or programs as 

2 deemed appropriate. 

3 SEC. 203. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

4 There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 

5 this title $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2005, and such sums 

6 as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2006 

7 through 2009. 

8 TITLE III—NATIONAL MEDIA 

9 CAMPAIGN 

10 SEC. 301. NATIONAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT UN11 DERAGE DRINKING. 

12 (a) SCOPE OF THE CAMPAIGN.—The Secretary of 

13 Health and Human Services shall continue to fund and 

14 oversee the production, broadcasting, and evaluation of 

15 the Ad Council’s national adult-oriented media public serv16 ice campaign. 

17 (b) REPORT.—The Secretary of Health and Human 

18 Services shall provide a report to the Congress annually 

19 detailing the production, broadcasting, and evaluation of 

20 the campaign referred to in subsection (a), and to detail 

21 in the report the effectiveness of the campaign in reducing 

22 underage drinking, the need for and likely effectiveness 

23 of an expanded adult-oriented media campaign, and the 

24 feasibility and the likely effectiveness of a national youth25 focused media campaign to combat underage drinking. 
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1 (c) CONSULTATION REQUIREMENT.—In carrying out 

2 the media campaign, the Secretary of Health and Human 

3 Services shall direct the Ad Council to consult with inter4 ested parties including both the alcohol beverage industry 

5 and public health and consumer groups. The progress of 

6 this consultative process is to be covered in the report 

7 under subsection (b). 

8 (d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

9 are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, 

10 $1,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2005 and 2006, 

11 and such sums as may be necessary for each subsequent 

12 fiscal year. 

13 TITLE IV—INTERVENTIONS 

14 SEC. 401. COMMUNITY-BASED COALITION ENHANCEMENT 

15 GRANTS TO PREVENT UNDERAGE DRINKING. 

16 (a) AUTHORIZATION OF PROGRAM.—The Director of 

17 the Office of National Drug Control Policy shall award 

18 ‘‘enhancement grants’’ to eligible entities to design, test, 

19 evaluate and disseminate strategies to maximize the effec20 tiveness of community-wide approaches to preventing and 

21 reducing underage drinking. 

22 (b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this section are, in 

23 conjunction with the Drug-Free Communities Act of 1997 

24 (21 U.S.C. 1521 et seq.), to—
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1 (1) reduce alcohol use among youth in commu2 nities throughout the United States; 

3 (2) strengthen collaboration among commu4 nities, the Federal Government, and State, local, 

5 and tribal governments; 

6 (3) enhance intergovernmental cooperation and 

7 coordination on the issue of alcohol use among 

8 youth; 

9 (4) serve as a catalyst for increased citizen par10 ticipation and greater collaboration among all sec11 tors and organizations of a community that first 

12 demonstrates a long-term commitment to reducing 

13 alcohol use among youth; 

14 (5) disseminate to communities timely informa15 tion regarding state-of-the-art practices and initia16 tives that have proven to be effective in reducing al17 cohol use among youth; and 

18 (6) enhance, not supplant, local community ini19 tiatives for reducing alcohol use among youth. 

20 (c) APPLICATION.—An eligible entity desiring an en21 hancement grant under this section shall submit an appli22 cation to the Director at such time, and in such manner, 

23 and accompanied by such information as the Director may 

24 require. Each application shall include— 
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1 (1) a complete description of the entity’s cur2 rent underage alcohol use prevention initiatives and 

3 how the grant will appropriately enhance the focus 

4 on underage drinking issues; or 

5 (2) a complete description of the entity’s cur6 rent initiatives, and how it will use this grant to en7 hance those initiatives by adding a focus on under8 age drinking prevention. 

9 (d) USES OF FUNDS.—Each eligible entity that re10 ceives a grant under this section shall use the grant funds 

11 to carry out the activities described in such entity’s appli12 cation submitted pursuant to subsection (c). Grants under 

13 this section shall not exceed $50,000 per year, and may 

14 be awarded for each year the entity is funded as per sub15 section (f). 

16 (e) SUPPLEMENT NOT SUPPLANT.—Grant funds 

17 provided under this section shall be used to supplement, 

18 not supplant, Federal and non-Federal funds available for 

19 carrying out the activities described in this section. 

20 (f) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section, the 

21 term ‘‘eligible entity’’ means an organization that is cur22 rently eligible to receive grant funds under the Drug-Free 

23 Communities Act of 1997 (21 U.S.C. 1521 et seq.). 
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1 (g) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—Not more than 6 

2 percent of a grant under this section may be expended 

3 for administrative expenses. 

4 (h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

5 are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 

6 $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2005, and such sums as may 

7 be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2006 through 

8 2009. 

9 SEC. 402. GRANTS DIRECTED AT REDUCING HIGHER-EDU10 CATION ALCOHOL ABUSE. 

11 (a) AUTHORIZATION OF PROGRAM.—The Secretary 

12 shall award grants to eligible entities to enable the entities 

13 to reduce the rate of underage alcohol use and binge 

14 drinking among students at institutions of higher edu15 cation. 

16 (b) APPLICATIONS.—An eligible entity that desires to 

17 receive a grant under this Act shall submit an application 

18 to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and accom19 panied by such information as the Secretary may require. 

20 Each application shall include— 

21 (1) a description of how the eligible entity will 

22 work to enhance an existing, or where none exists to 

23 build a, statewide coalition; 

24 (2) a description of how the eligible entity will 

25 target underage students in the State; 
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1 (3) a description of how the eligible entity in2 tends to ensure that the statewide coalition is actu3 ally implementing the purpose of this Act and mov4 ing toward indicators described in section (d); 

5 (4) a list of the members of the statewide coali6 tion or interested parties involved in the work of the 

7 eligible entity; 

8 (5) a description of how the eligible entity in9 tends to work with State agencies on substance 

10 abuse prevention and education; 

11 (6) the anticipated impact of funds provided 

12 under this Act in reducing the rates of underage al13 cohol use; 

14 (7) outreach strategies, including ways in which 

15 the eligible entity proposes to— 

16 (A) reach out to students; 

17 (B) promote the purpose of this Act; 

18 (C) address the range of needs of the stu19 dents and the surrounding communities; and 

20 (D) address community norms for under21 age students regarding alcohol use; and 

22 (8) such additional information as required by 

23 the Secretary. 

24 (c) USES OF FUNDS.—Each eligible entity that re25 ceives a grant under this section shall use the grant funds 
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1 to carry out the activities described in such entity’s appli2 cation submitted pursuant to subsection (b). 

3 (d) ACCOUNTABILITY.—On the date on which the 

4 Secretary first publishes a notice in the Federal Register 

5 soliciting applications for grants under this section, the 

6 Secretary shall include in the notice achievement indica7 tors for the program authorized under this section. The 

8 achievement indicators shall be designed— 

9 (1) to measure the impact that the statewide 

10 coalitions assisted under this Act are having on the 

11 institutions of higher education and the surrounding 

12 communities, including changes in the number of al13 cohol incidents of any kind (including violations, 

14 physical assaults, sexual assaults, reports of intimi15 dation, disruptions of school functions, disruptions 

16 of student studies, mental health referrals, illnesses, 

17 or deaths); 

18 (2) to measure the quality and accessibility of 

19 the programs or information offered by the state20 wide coalitions; and 

21 (3) to provide such other measures of program 

22 impact as the Secretary determines appropriate. 

23 (e) SUPPLEMENT NOT SUPPLANT.—Grant funds 

24 provided under this Act shall be used to supplement, and
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1 not supplant, Federal and non-Federal funds available for 

2 carrying out the activities described in this section. 

3 (f) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section: 

4 (1) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘‘eligible enti5 ty’’ means a State, institution of higher education, 

6 or nonprofit entity. 

7 (2) INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION.—The 

8 term ‘‘institution of higher education’’ has the 

9 meaning given the term in section 101(a) of the 

10 Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a)). 

11 (3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 

12 the Secretary of Education. 

13 (4) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each of 

14 the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the 

15 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. 

16 (5) STATEWIDE COALITION.—The term ‘‘state17 wide coalition’’ means a coalition that— 

18 (A) includes— 

19 (i) institutions of higher education 

20 within a State; and 

21 (ii) a nonprofit group, a community 

22 underage drinking prevention coalition, or 

23 another substance abuse prevention group 

24 within a State; and 
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1 (B) works toward lowering the alcohol 

2 abuse rate by targeting underage students at 

3 institutions of higher education throughout the 

4 State and in the surrounding communities. 

5 (6) SURROUNDING COMMUNITY.—The term 

6 ‘‘surrounding community’’ means the community— 

7 (A) that surrounds an institution of higher 

8 education participating in a statewide coalition; 

9 (B) where the students from the institu10 tion of higher education take part in the com11 munity; and 

12 (C) where students from the institution of 

13 higher education live in off-campus housing. 

14 (g) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—Not more than 5 

15 percent of a grant under this section may be expended 

16 for administrative expenses. 

17 (h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

18 are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 

19 $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2005, and such sums as may 

20 be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2006 through 

21 2009. 
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1 TITLE V—ADDITIONAL 

2 RESEARCH 

3 SEC. 501. ADDITIONAL RESEARCH ON UNDERAGE DRINK4 ING. 

5 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 

6 Human Services shall collect data on, and conduct or sup7 port research on, underage drinking with respect to the 

8 following: 

9 (1) The short and long-range impact of alcohol 

10 use and abuse upon adolescent brain development 

11 and other organ systems. 

12 (2) Comprehensive community-based programs 

13 or strategies and statewide systems to prevent un14 derage drinking, across the underage years from 

15 early childhood to young adulthood, including pro16 grams funded and implemented by government enti17 ties, public health interest groups and foundations, 

18 and alcohol beverage companies and trade associa19 tions. 

20 (3) Improved knowledge of the scope of the un21 derage drinking problem and progress in preventing 

22 and treating underage drinking. 

23 (4) Annually obtain more precise information 

24 than is currently collected on the type and quantity 

25 of alcoholic beverages consumed by underage drink-
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1 ers, as well as information on brand preferences of 

2 these drinkers and their exposure to alcohol adver3 tising. 

4 (b) CERTAIN MATTERS.—The Secretary of Health 

5 and Human Services shall carry out activities toward the 

6 following objectives with respect to underage drinking: 

7 (1) Testing every unnatural death of persons 

8 ages 12 to 20 in the United States for alcohol in9 volvement, including suicides, homicides, and unin10 tentional injuries such as falls, drownings, burns, 

11 poisonings, and motor vehicle crash deaths. 

12 (2) Obtaining new epidemiological data within 

13 the National Epidemiological Study on Alcoholism 

14 and Related Conditions and other national or tar15 geted surveys that identify alcohol use and attitudes 

16 about alcohol use during pre- and early adolescence, 

17 including second-hand effects of adolescent alcohol 

18 use such as date rapes, violence, risky sexual behav19 ior, and prenatal alcohol exposure. 

20 (3) Developing or identifying successful clinical 

21 treatments for youth with alcohol problems. 

22 SEC. 502. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

23 There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 

24 section 501 $6,000,000 for fiscal year 2005, and such 
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1 sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2006 

2 through 2009.

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