I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1717 
To provide for programs and activities with respect to the prevention of 
underage drinking. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 26, 2015 
Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD
(for herself, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Ms. BASS, Ms. 
BROWNLEY
of California, Mr. BUCHANAN, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Ms. 
CLARKE of New York, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. CUMMINGS, Ms. DELAURO, 
Ms. DELBENE, Mr. ELLISON, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. GRAYSON, Mr. 
GUTIE´RREZ, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. HECK of Washington, Mr. HINOJOSA, 
Mr. HONDA, Mr. HOYER, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. ISRAEL, Mr. KEATING, Mr. 
LEVIN, Mr. BEN RAY LUJA´N of New Mexico, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. 
MCGOVERN, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. NOLAN, Ms. NORTON, Mr. PEARCE, 
Mr. PETERSON, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. SIMP-
SON, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Ms. SPEIER, Mr. 
SWALWELL of California, Mr. TONKO, and Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on En-
ergy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To provide for programs and activities with respect to the 
prevention of underage drinking. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Sober Truth on Pre-
venting Underage Drinking Reauthorization Act’’ or the 
‘‘STOP Act’’. 
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 
ACT. 
Section 519B of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 290bb–25b) is amended by striking subsections (a) 
through (f) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘alcohol beverage industry’ 
means the brewers, vintners, distillers, importers, 
distributors, and retail or online outlets that sell or 
serve beer, wine, and distilled spirits. 
‘‘(2) The term ‘school-based prevention’ means 
programs, which are institutionalized, and run by 
staff members or school-designated persons or orga-
nizations in any grade of school, kindergarten 
through 12th grade. 
‘‘(3) The term ‘youth’ means persons under the 
age of 21. 
‘‘(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of the 
Congress that: 
‘‘(1) A multi-faceted effort is needed to more 
successfully address the problem of underage drink-
ing in the United States. A coordinated approach to 
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prevention, intervention, treatment, enforcement, 
and research is key to making progress. This section 
recognizes the need for a focused national effort, 
and addresses particulars of the Federal portion of 
that effort, as well as Federal support for State ac-
tivities. 
‘‘(2) The Secretary shall continue to conduct 
research and collect data on the short- and long- 
range impact of alcohol use and abuse upon adoles-
cent brain development and other organ systems. 
‘‘(3) States and communities, including colleges 
and universities, are encouraged to adopt com-
prehensive prevention approaches, including— 
‘‘(A) evidence-based screening, programs, 
and curricula; 
‘‘(B) brief intervention strategies; 
‘‘(C) consistent policy enforcement; and 
‘‘(D) science-based strategies to reduce un-
derage drinking. 
‘‘(4) Public health groups, consumer groups, 
and the alcohol beverage industry should continue 
and expand evidence-based efforts to prevent and re-
duce underage drinking. 
‘‘(5) The entertainment industries have a pow-
erful impact on youth, and they should use rating 
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systems and marketing codes to reduce the likeli-
hood that underage audiences will be exposed to 
movies, recordings, television programs, or other dig-
ital media with unsuitable alcohol content. 
‘‘(6) The National Collegiate Athletic Associa-
tion, its member colleges and universities, and ath-
letic conferences should affirm a commitment to a 
policy of discouraging alcohol use among underage 
students and other young fans. 
‘‘(7) Alcohol is a unique product and should be 
regulated differently than other products by the 
States and Federal Government. States have pri-
mary authority to regulate alcohol distribution and 
sale, and the Federal Government should support 
and supplement these State efforts. States also have 
a responsibility to fight youth access to alcohol and 
reduce underage drinking. Continued State regula-
tion and licensing of the manufacture, importation, 
sale, distribution, transportation and storage of alco-
holic beverages are clearly in the public interest and 
are critical to promoting responsible consumption, 
preventing illegal access to alcohol by persons under 
21 years of age from commercial and non-commer-
cial sources, maintaining industry integrity and an 
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orderly marketplace, and furthering effective State 
tax collection. 
‘‘(8) The age-21 minimum drinking law, en-
acted in 1984, has been a remarkably effective pub-
lic health and safety policy, as evidenced by the fact 
that the percentage of 12th graders who have drunk 
alcohol in the past month has fallen by one-third 
since the enactment of such law. 
‘‘(9) The age-21 minimum drinking law has 
also has been significantly effective in reducing 
drinking and driving traffic fatalities, as the Na-
tional 
Highway 
Traffic 
Safety 
Administration 
(NHTSA) estimates that the law has saved over 
28,000 lives since 1975. 
‘‘(10) Community awareness, support, and mo-
bilization provide an important context for the effec-
tive enforcement of the age-21 minimum drinking 
law. 
‘‘(c) INTERAGENCY COORDINATING COMMITTEE; AN-
NUAL REPORT ON STATE UNDERAGE DRINKING PREVEN-
TION AND ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES.— 
‘‘(1) INTERAGENCY COORDINATING COMMITTEE 
ON THE PREVENTION OF UNDERAGE DRINKING.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, in col-
laboration with the Federal officials specified in 
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subparagraph (B), shall continue to support 
and enhance the efforts of the interagency co-
ordinating committee, that began operating in 
2004, focusing on underage drinking (referred 
to in this subsection as the ‘Committee’). 
‘‘(B) OTHER AGENCIES.—The officials re-
ferred to in subparagraph (A) are the Secretary 
of Education, the Attorney General, the Sec-
retary of Transportation, the Secretary of the 
Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Sur-
geon General, the Director of the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention, the Director of 
the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Al-
coholism, the Administrator of the Substance 
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administra-
tion, the Director of the National Institute on 
Drug Abuse, the Assistant Secretary for Chil-
dren and Families, the Director of the Office of 
National Drug Control Policy, the Adminis-
trator of the National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administration, the Administrator of the Office 
of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 
the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commis-
sion, and such other Federal officials as the 
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Secretary of Health and Human Services deter-
mines to be appropriate. 
‘‘(C) CHAIR.—The Secretary of Health 
and Human Services shall serve as the chair of 
the Committee. 
‘‘(D) DUTIES.—The Committee shall guide 
policy and program development across the 
Federal Government with respect to underage 
drinking, provided, however, that nothing in 
this section shall be construed as transferring 
regulatory or program authority from an Agen-
cy to the Coordinating Committee. 
‘‘(E) CONSULTATIONS.—The Committee 
shall actively seek the input of and shall consult 
with all appropriate and interested parties, in-
cluding States, public health research and inter-
est groups, foundations, and alcohol beverage 
industry trade associations and companies. 
‘‘(F) ANNUAL REPORT.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, on 
behalf of the Committee, shall annually 
submit to the Congress a report that sum-
marizes— 
‘‘(I) all programs and policies of 
Federal agencies designed to prevent 
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and reduce underage drinking, focus-
ing particularly on programs and poli-
cies that support the adoption and en-
forcement of State policies designed to 
prevent and reduce underage drinking 
as specified in paragraph (2); 
‘‘(II) the extent of progress in 
preventing and reducing underage 
drinking at State and national levels; 
‘‘(III) data that the Secretary 
shall collect with respect to the infor-
mation specified in clause (ii); and 
‘‘(IV) such other information re-
garding underage drinking as the Sec-
retary determines to be appropriate. 
‘‘(ii) CERTAIN
INFORMATION.—The 
report under clause (i) shall include infor-
mation on the following: 
‘‘(I) Patterns and consequences 
of underage drinking as reported in 
research and surveys such as, but not 
limited to, Monitoring the Future, 
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance 
System, the National Survey on Drug 
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Use and Health, and the Fatality 
Analysis Reporting System. 
‘‘(II) Measures of the availability 
of alcohol from commercial and non- 
commercial sources to underage popu-
lations. 
‘‘(III) Measures of the exposure 
of underage populations to messages 
regarding alcohol in advertising and 
the entertainment media. 
‘‘(IV) Surveillance data, includ-
ing information on the onset and 
prevalence of underage drinking, con-
sumption patterns, beverage pref-
erences, prevalence of drinking among 
students at institutions of higher edu-
cation, correlations between adult and 
youth drinking, and the means of un-
derage access, including trends over 
time for these surveillance data. The 
Secretary shall develop a plan to im-
prove the collection, measurement, 
and consistency of reporting Federal 
underage alcohol data. 
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‘‘(V) Any additional findings re-
sulting from research conducted or 
supported under subsection (f). 
‘‘(VI) Evidence-based best prac-
tices to prevent and reduce underage 
drinking including a review of the re-
search literature related to State laws, 
regulations, and policies designed to 
prevent and reduce underage drink-
ing, 
as 
described 
in 
paragraph 
(2)(B)(i). 
‘‘(2) ANNUAL
REPORT
ON
STATE
UNDERAGE 
DRINKING PREVENTION AND ENFORCEMENT ACTIVI-
TIES.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, 
with input and collaboration from other appro-
priate Federal agencies, States, Indian tribes, 
territories, and public health, consumer, and al-
cohol beverage industry groups, annually issue 
a report on each State’s performance in enact-
ing, enforcing, and creating laws, regulations, 
and policies to prevent or reduce underage 
drinking based on an assessment of best prac-
tices 
developed 
pursuant 
to 
paragraph 
(1)(F)(ii)(VI) and subparagraph (B)(i). For 
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purposes of this paragraph, each such report, 
with respect to a year, shall be referred to as 
the ‘State Report’. Each State Report shall be 
designed as a resource tool for Federal agencies 
assisting States in the States’ underage drink-
ing prevention efforts, State public health and 
law enforcement agencies, State and local policy 
makers, and underage drinking prevention coa-
litions including those receiving grants pursuant 
to subsection (e)(1). 
‘‘(B) STATE REPORT PERFORMANCE MEAS-
URES AND CONTENT.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary 
shall develop, in consultation with the 
Committee, a set of measures to be used in 
preparing the report on best practices as 
they relate to State laws, regulations, poli-
cies, and enforcement practices. 
‘‘(ii) STATE REPORT CONTENT.—Each 
State Report shall include updates on 
State laws, regulations, and policies, in-
cluding, but not limited to the following: 
‘‘(I) Whether or not the State 
has 
comprehensive 
anti-underage 
drinking laws such as for the illegal 
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sale, purchase, attempt to purchase, 
consumption, or possession of alcohol; 
illegal use of fraudulent ID; illegal 
furnishing or obtaining of alcohol for 
an individual under 21 years; the de-
gree of strictness of the penalties for 
such offenses; and the prevalence of 
the enforcement of each of these in-
fractions. 
‘‘(II) Whether or not the State 
has comprehensive liability statutes 
pertaining to underage access to alco-
hol such as dram shop, social host, 
and house party laws, and the preva-
lence of enforcement of each of these 
laws. 
‘‘(III) Whether or not the State 
encourages and conducts comprehen-
sive enforcement efforts to prevent 
underage access to alcohol at retail 
outlets, such as random compliance 
checks and shoulder tap programs, 
and the number of compliance checks 
within alcohol retail outlets measured 
against the number of total alcohol re-
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tail outlets in each State, and the re-
sult of such checks. 
‘‘(IV) Whether or not the State 
encourages training on the proper 
selling and serving of alcohol for all 
sellers and servers of alcohol as a con-
dition of employment. 
‘‘(V) Whether or not the State 
has policies and regulations with re-
gard to direct sales to consumers and 
home delivery of alcoholic beverages. 
‘‘(VI) Whether or not the State 
has programs or laws to deter adults 
from purchasing alcohol for minors; 
and the number of adults targeted by 
these programs. 
‘‘(VII) Whether or not the State 
has enacted graduated drivers licenses 
and the extent of those provisions. 
‘‘(iii) ADDITIONAL
CATEGORIES.—In 
addition to the updates of State laws, reg-
ulations, and policies listed in clause (ii), 
the Secretary shall consider the following 
categories, including but not limited to— 
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‘‘(I) whether or not States have 
adopted laws, regulations, and policies 
that deter underage alcohol use, as 
described in the Surgeon General’s 
2007 Call to Action to Prevent and 
Reduce Underage Drinking, including 
restrictions on low-price, high-volume 
drink specials, and wholesaler pricing 
provisions; 
‘‘(II) whether or not States have 
adopted laws, regulations and policies 
designed to reduce alcohol advertising 
messages attractive to youth and 
youth exposure to alcohol advertising 
and marketing in measured and 
unmeasured media; 
‘‘(III) whether or not States have 
laws and policies that promote under-
age drinking prevention policy devel-
opment by local jurisdictions; 
‘‘(IV) whether or not States have 
adopted laws, regulations, and policies 
to restrict youth access to alcoholic 
beverages that may pose special risks 
to youth, including but not limited to 
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alcoholic mists, gelatins, freezer pops, 
pre-mixed caffeinated alcoholic bev-
erages, and flavored malt beverages; 
‘‘(V) whether or not States have 
adopted uniform best practices proto-
cols for conducting compliance checks 
and shoulder tap programs; and 
‘‘(VI) whether or not States have 
adopted uniform best practices pen-
alty protocols for violations of laws 
prohibiting retail licensees from sell-
ing or furnishing of alcohol to minors. 
‘‘(iv) UNIFORM
DATA
SYSTEM.—For 
performance measures related to enforce-
ment of underage drinking laws as speci-
fied in clauses (ii) and (iii), the Secretary 
shall develop and test a uniform data sys-
tem for reporting State enforcement data, 
including the development of a pilot pro-
gram for this purpose. The pilot program 
shall include procedures for collecting en-
forcement data from both State and local 
law enforcement jurisdictions. 
‘‘(3) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
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this subsection $1,000,000 for fiscal year 2016, and 
$1,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2017 through 
2020. 
‘‘(d) NATIONAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT UN-
DERAGE DRINKING.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, in consulta-
tion with the National Highway Traffic Safety Ad-
ministration, shall develop an intensive, multifaceted, 
adult-oriented national media campaign to reduce 
underage drinking by influencing attitudes regarding 
underage drinking, increasing the willingness of 
adults to take actions to reduce underage drinking, 
and encouraging public policy changes known to de-
crease underage drinking rates. 
‘‘(2) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the national 
media campaign described in this section shall be to 
achieve the following objectives: 
‘‘(A) Instill a broad societal commitment to 
reduce underage drinking. 
‘‘(B) Increase specific actions by adults 
that are meant to discourage or inhibit under-
age drinking. 
‘‘(C) Decrease adult conduct that tends to 
facilitate or condone underage drinking. 
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‘‘(3) DEVELOPMENTAL PHASE.—In preparation 
for the national media campaign described in this 
section, the Secretary shall conduct, in consultation 
with appropriate Federal agencies and outside ex-
perts, including in marketing, public relations, mass 
media campaigns, parenting, and alcohol use and 
abuse, a developmental phase to test specific cam-
paign features prior to beginning an intensive na-
tional strategy. This phase shall include research 
and testing, limited to a period not to exceed 24 
months, to determine the following: 
‘‘(A) Promising messages to promote pub-
lic opinion change. 
‘‘(B) Appropriate channels for reaching 
target audiences. 
‘‘(C) Appropriate timing and weight for 
utilizing such promising messages and media 
channels. 
‘‘(D) Methods for linking the campaign to 
local, State, and national policy changes affect-
ing underage drinking, if adopted. 
‘‘(E) Productive collaborative partnerships 
with national and local organizations. 
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‘‘(4) COMPONENTS.—When implementing the 
national media campaign described in this section, 
the Secretary shall— 
‘‘(A) educate the public about the public 
health and safety benefits of evidence-based 
policies to reduce underage drinking, including 
minimum legal drinking age laws, and build 
public and parental support for and cooperation 
with enforcement of such policies; 
‘‘(B) educate the public about the negative 
consequences of underage drinking; 
‘‘(C) promote specific actions by adults 
that are meant to discourage or inhibit under-
age drinking, including positive behavior mod-
eling, general parental monitoring, and con-
sistent and appropriate discipline; 
‘‘(D) discourage adult conduct that tends 
to facilitate underage drinking, including the 
hosting of underage parties with alcohol and 
the purchasing of alcoholic beverages on behalf 
of underage youth; 
‘‘(E) establish collaborative relationships 
with local and national organizations and insti-
tutions to further the goals of the campaign 
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and assure that the messages of the campaign 
are disseminated from a variety of sources; 
‘‘(F) conduct the campaign through multi- 
media sources; and 
‘‘(G) conduct the campaign with regard to 
changing demographics and cultural and lin-
guistic factors. 
‘‘(5) CONSULTATION REQUIREMENT.—In devel-
oping and implementing the national media cam-
paign described in this section, the Secretary shall 
consult recommendations for reducing underage 
drinking published by the National Academy of 
Sciences. The Secretary shall also consult with inter-
ested parties including medical, public health, and 
consumer and parent groups, law enforcement, insti-
tutions of higher education, community organiza-
tions and coalitions, and other stakeholders sup-
portive of the goals of the campaign. 
‘‘(6) ANNUAL REPORT.—Beginning 12 months 
after the date of the enactment of the Sober Truth 
on Preventing Underage Drinking Reauthorization 
Act, the Secretary shall produce an annual report on 
the progress of the development or implementation 
of the media campaign described in this section, in-
cluding expenses and projected costs, and, as such 
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information is available, report on the effectiveness 
of such campaign in affecting adult attitudes toward 
underage drinking and adult willingness to take ac-
tions to decrease underage drinking. 
‘‘(7) RESEARCH
ON
YOUTH-ORIENTED
CAM-
PAIGN.—The Secretary may, based on the avail-
ability of funds, conduct research on the potential 
success of a youth-oriented national media campaign 
to reduce underage drinking. The Secretary shall re-
port any such results to Congress with policy rec-
ommendations on establishing such a campaign. 
‘‘(8) ADMINISTRATION.—The Secretary may 
enter into a subcontract with another Federal agen-
cy to delegate the authority for execution and ad-
ministration of the adult oriented national media 
campaign. 
‘‘(9) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this section $1,000,000 for fiscal years 2016 and 
2017 and such sums as necessary for each of the fis-
cal years 2018 through 2020. 
‘‘(e) COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMS TO PREVENT 
UNDERAGE DRINKING.— 
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‘‘(1) COMMUNITY-BASED COALITION ENHANCE-
MENT
GRANTS
TO
PREVENT
UNDERAGE
DRINK-
ING.— 
‘‘(A) AUTHORIZATION OF PROGRAM.—The 
Administrator of the Substance Abuse and 
Mental Health Services Administration, in con-
sultation with the Director of the Office of Na-
tional Drug Control Policy, shall award, if the 
Administrator determines that the Department 
of Health and Human Services is not currently 
conducting activities that duplicate activities of 
the type described in this subsection, ‘enhance-
ment grants’ to eligible entities to design, im-
plement, evaluate, and disseminate comprehen-
sive strategies to maximize the effectiveness of 
community-wide approaches to preventing and 
reducing underage drinking. This subsection is 
subject to the availability of appropriations. 
‘‘(B) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this 
paragraph are to— 
‘‘(i) prevent and reduce alcohol use 
among youth in communities throughout 
the United States; 
‘‘(ii) serve as a catalyst for increased 
citizen participation and greater collabora-
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