II 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 864 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
NOVEMBER 15, 2006 
Received 
AN ACT 
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; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act, or 
the ‘STOP Underage Drinking Act’ ’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
TITLE I—SENSE OF CONGRESS 
Sec. 101. Sense of Congress. 
TITLE II—INTERAGENCY COORDINATING COMMITTEE; ANNUAL 
REPORT ON STATE UNDERAGE DRINKING PREVENTION AND 
ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES 
Sec. 201. Interagency coordinating committee on the prevention of underage 
drinking. 
Sec. 202. Annual report on State underage drinking prevention and enforce-
ment activities. 
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 preventing and reducing alcohol abuse at institu-
tions of higher education. 
TITLE V—ADDITIONAL RESEARCH 
Sec. 501. Additional research on underage drinking. 
Sec. 502. Authorization of appropriations. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this Act: 
(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. 
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(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. 
(4) The term ‘‘IOM report’’ means the report 
released in September 2003 by the National Re-
search Council, Institute of Medicine, and entitled 
‘‘Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Respon-
sibility’’. 
TITLE I—SENSE OF CONGRESS 
SEC. 101. 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 
prevention, intervention, treatment, enforcement, 
and research is key to making progress. This Act 
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. 
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(2) The Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices shall continue to conduct research and collect 
data on the short and long-range impact of alcohol 
use and abuse upon adolescent 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) environmental changes that limit un-
derage access to alcohol. 
(4) Public health groups, consumer groups, and 
the alcohol beverage industry should continue and 
expand evidence-based efforts to prevent and reduce 
underage drinking. 
(5) The entertainment industries have a power-
ful impact on youth, and they should use rating sys-
tems and marketing codes to reduce the likelihood 
that underage audiences will be exposed to movies, 
recordings, or television programs with unsuitable 
alcohol content. 
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(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 
orderly marketplace, and furthering effective State 
tax collection. 
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TITLE 
II—INTERAGENCY 
CO-
ORDINATING 
COMMITTEE; 
ANNUAL REPORT ON STATE 
UNDERAGE DRINKING PRE-
VENTION AND ENFORCEMENT 
ACTIVITIES 
SEC. 201. INTERAGENCY COORDINATING COMMITTEE ON 
THE PREVENTION OF UNDERAGE DRINKING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, in collaboration with the Federal officials 
specified in subsection (b), shall formally establish and en-
hance the efforts of the interagency coordinating com-
mittee, that began operating in 2004, focusing on under-
age drinking (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Com-
mittee’’). 
(b) OTHER AGENCIES.—The officials referred to in 
subsection (a) are the Secretary of Education, the Attor-
ney General, the Secretary of Transportation, the Sec-
retary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Sur-
geon General, the Director of the Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention, the Director of the National Institute 
on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 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 Children and Families, 
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the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, 
the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administration, the Administrator of the Office of Juve-
nile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Chairman of 
the Federal Trade Commission, and such other Federal 
officials as the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
determines 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 Act shall be construed as transferring reg-
ulatory or program authority from an Agency to the Co-
ordinating Committee. 
(e) CONSULTATIONS.—The Committee shall actively 
seek the input of and shall consult with all appropriate 
and interested parties, including States, public health re-
search and interest groups, foundations, and alcohol bev-
erage industry trade associations and companies. 
(f) ANNUAL REPORT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, on behalf of the Committee, shall 
annually submit to the Congress a report that sum-
marizes— 
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(A) all programs and policies of Federal 
agencies designed to prevent and reduce under-
age drinking; 
(B) the extent of progress in preventing 
and reducing underage drinking nationally; 
(C) data that the Secretary shall collect 
with respect to the information specified in 
paragraph (2); and 
(D) such other information regarding un-
derage drinking as the Secretary determines to 
be appropriate. 
(2) CERTAIN INFORMATION.—The report under 
paragraph (1) shall include information on the fol-
lowing: 
(A) Patterns and consequences of under-
age drinking as reported in research and sur-
veys such as, but not limited to Monitoring the 
Future, Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Sys-
tem, the National Survey on Drug Use and 
Health, and the Fatality Analysis Reporting 
System. 
(B) Measures of the availability of alcohol 
from commercial and non-commercial sources to 
underage populations. 
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(C) Measures of the exposure of underage 
populations to messages regarding alcohol in 
advertising and the entertainment media as re-
ported by the Federal Trade Commission. 
(D) Surveillance data, including informa-
tion on the onset and prevalence of underage 
drinking, consumption patterns and the means 
of underage access. The Secretary shall develop 
a plan to improve the collection, measurement 
and consistency of reporting Federal underage 
alcohol data. 
(E) Any additional findings resulting from 
research conducted or supported under section 
501. 
(F) Evidence-based best practices to pre-
vent and reduce underage drinking and provide 
treatment services to those youth who need 
them. 
SEC. 202. ANNUAL REPORT ON STATE UNDERAGE DRINK-
ING PREVENTION AND ENFORCEMENT AC-
TIVITIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Sec-
retary’’) shall, with input and collaboration from other ap-
propriate Federal agencies, States, Indian tribes, terri-
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tories, and public health, consumer, and alcohol beverage 
industry groups, annually issue a report on each State’s 
performance in enacting, enforcing, and creating laws, 
regulations, and programs to prevent or reduce underage 
drinking. 
(b) STATE PERFORMANCE MEASURES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall develop, 
in consultation with the Committee established in 
section 201, a set of measures to be used in pre-
paring the report on best practices. 
(2) CATEGORIES.—In developing these meas-
ures, the Secretary shall consider categories includ-
ing, but not limited to: 
(A) Whether or not the State has com-
prehensive anti-underage drinking laws such as 
for the illegal sale, purchase, attempt to pur-
chase, consumption, or possession of alcohol; il-
legal use of fraudulent ID; illegal furnishing or 
obtaining of alcohol for an individual under 21 
years; the degree of strictness of the penalties 
for such offenses; and the prevalence of the en-
forcement of each of these infractions. 
(B) Whether or not the State has com-
prehensive liability statutes such as dram shop, 
social host and ‘‘house party’’ laws; and the 
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prevalence of enforcement of each of these in-
fractions. 
(C) Whether or not the State encourages 
and conducts comprehensive enforcement ef-
forts at retail outlets, such as random compli-
ance checks and shoulder tap programs; and 
the number of compliance checks within alcohol 
retail outlets measured against the number of 
total alcohol retail outlets in each State; and 
the results of such checks. 
(D) Whether or not the State mandates or 
encourages training on the proper selling and 
serving of alcohol for all sellers and servers of 
alcohol as a condition of employment. 
(E) Whether or not the State has policies 
and regulations with regard to direct sales to 
consumers and home delivery of alcoholic bev-
erages. 
(F) Whether or not the State has pro-
grams or laws to deter adults from purchasing 
alcohol for minors; and the number of adults 
targeted by these programs. 
(G) Whether or not the State has pro-
grams targeted to youths, parents, and care-
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givers to deter underage drinking; and the num-
ber of individuals served by these programs. 
(H) Whether or not the State has enacted 
graduated drivers licenses and the extent of 
those provisions. 
(I) The amount that the State invests, per 
youth capita, on the prevention of underage 
drinking, further broken down by the amount 
spent on— 
(i) compliance check programs in re-
tail outlets, including providing technology 
to prevent and detect the use of false iden-
tification by minors to make alcohol pur-
chases; 
(ii) checkpoints and saturation pa-
trols; 
(iii) community-based, school-based, 
and higher-education-based programs to 
prevent underage drinking; 
(iv) underage drinking prevention pro-
grams that target youth within the juvenile 
justice and child welfare systems; and 
(v) other State efforts or programs as 
deemed appropriate. 
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SEC. 203. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this title $1,000,000 for fiscal year 2007, and $1,000,000 
for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2010. 
TITLE III—NATIONAL MEDIA 
CAMPAIGN 
SEC. 301. NATIONAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT UN-
DERAGE DRINKING. 
(a) SCOPE OF THE CAMPAIGN.—The Secretary of 
Health and Human Services shall continue to fund and 
oversee the production, broadcasting, and evaluation of 
the Ad Council’s national adult-oriented media public serv-
ice campaign. 
(b) REPORT.—The Secretary of Health and Human 
Services shall provide a report to the Congress annually 
detailing the production, broadcasting, and evaluation of 
the campaign referred to in subsection (a), and to detail 
in the report the effectiveness of the campaign in reducing 
underage drinking, the need for and likely effectiveness 
of an expanded adult-oriented media campaign, and the 
feasibility and the likely effectiveness of a national youth- 
focused media campaign to combat underage drinking. 
(c) CONSULTATION REQUIREMENT.—In carrying out 
the media campaign, the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services shall direct the Ad Council to consult with inter-
ested parties including both the alcohol beverage industry 
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and public health and consumer groups. The progress of 
this consultative process is to be covered in the report 
under subsection (b). 
(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, 
$1,000,000 for fiscal year 2007 and $1,000,000 for each 
of the fiscal years 2008 through 2010. 
TITLE IV—INTERVENTIONS 
SEC. 401. COMMUNITY-BASED COALITION ENHANCEMENT 
GRANTS TO PREVENT UNDERAGE DRINKING. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF PROGRAM.—The Adminis-
trator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration, in consultation with the Director of the 
Office of National Drug Control Policy, shall award ‘‘en-
hancement grants’’ to eligible entities to design, test, 
evaluate and disseminate effective strategies to maximize 
the effectiveness of community-wide approaches to pre-
venting and reducing underage drinking. 
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this section are 
to— 
(1) prevent and reduce alcohol use among youth 
in communities throughout the United States; 
(2) strengthen collaboration among commu-
nities, the Federal Government, and State, local, 
and tribal governments; 
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(3) enhance intergovernmental cooperation and 
coordination on the issue of alcohol use among 
youth; 
(4) serve as a catalyst for increased citizen par-
ticipation and greater collaboration among all sec-
tors and organizations of a community that first 
demonstrates a long-term commitment to reducing 
alcohol use among youth; 
(5) disseminate to communities timely informa-
tion regarding state-of-the-art practices and initia-
tives that have proven to be effective in preventing 
and reducing alcohol use among youth; and 
(6) enhance, not supplant, effective local com-
munity initiatives for preventing and reducing alco-
hol use among youth. 
(c) APPLICATION.—An eligible entity desiring an en-
hancement grant under this section shall submit an appli-
cation to the Administrator at such time, and in such 
manner, and accompanied by such information as the Ad-
ministrator may require. Each application shall include— 
(1) a complete description of the entity’s cur-
rent underage alcohol use prevention initiatives and 
how the grant will appropriately enhance the focus 
on underage drinking issues; or 
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(2) a complete description of the entity’s cur-
rent initiatives, and how it will use this grant to en-
hance those initiatives by adding a focus on under-
age drinking prevention. 
(d) USES OF FUNDS.—Each eligible entity that re-
ceives a grant under this section shall use the grant funds 
to carry out the activities described in such entity’s appli-
cation submitted pursuant to subsection (c). Grants under 
this section shall not exceed $50,000 per year and may 
not exceed four years. 
(e) SUPPLEMENT NOT SUPPLANT.—Grant funds 
provided under this section shall be used to supplement, 
not supplant, Federal and non-Federal funds available for 
carrying out the activities described in this section. 
(f) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section, the 
term ‘‘eligible entity’’ means an organization that is cur-
rently receiving or has received grant funds under the 
Drug-Free Communities Act of 1997 (21 U.S.C. 1521 et 
seq.). 
(g) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—Not more than 6 
percent of a grant under this section may be expended 
for administrative expenses. 
(h) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
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$5,000,000 for fiscal year 2007, and $5,000,000 for each 
of the fiscal years 2008 through 2010. 
SEC. 402. GRANTS DIRECTED AT PREVENTING AND REDUC-
ING ALCOHOL ABUSE AT INSTITUTIONS OF 
HIGHER EDUCATION. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF PROGRAM.—The Secretary 
shall award grants to eligible entities to enable the entities 
to prevent and reduce the rate of underage alcohol con-
sumption including binge drinking among students at in-
stitutions of higher education. 
(b) APPLICATIONS.—An eligible entity that desires to 
receive a grant under this Act shall submit an application 
to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and accom-
panied by such information as the Secretary may require. 
Each application shall include— 
(1) a description of how the eligible entity will 
work to enhance an existing, or where none exists to 
build a, statewide coalition; 
(2) a description of how the eligible entity will 
target underage students in the State; 
(3) a description of how the eligible entity in-
tends to ensure that the statewide coalition is actu-
ally implementing the purpose of this Act and mov-
ing toward indicators described in section (d); 
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