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 
Use and Health, and the Fatality 
Analysis Reporting System. 
‘‘(II) Measures of the availability 
of alcohol from commercial and non- 
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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. 
‘‘(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 
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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 
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-
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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 
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-
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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-
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 
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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— 
‘‘(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 
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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 
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-
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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 clause (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 
this subsection $1,000,000 for fiscal year 2012, and 
$1,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2013 through 
2016. 
‘‘(d) NATIONAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT UN-
DERAGE DRINKING.— 
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‘‘(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. 
‘‘(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 
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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. 
‘‘(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 
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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 
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. 
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‘‘(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 
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 
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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 2012 and 
2013 and such sums as necessary for each of the fis-
cal years 2014 through 2016. 
‘‘(e) COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMS TO PREVENT 
UNDERAGE DRINKING.— 
‘‘(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 
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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) strengthen collaboration among 
communities, the Federal Government, and 
State, local, and tribal governments; 
‘‘(iii) enhance intergovernmental co-
operation and coordination on the issue of 
alcohol use among youth; 
‘‘(iv) serve as a catalyst for increased 
citizen participation and greater collabora-
tion among all sectors and organizations of 
a community that first demonstrates a 
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long-term commitment to reducing alcohol 
use among youth; 
‘‘(v) 
implement 
state-of-the-art 
science-based strategies to prevent and re-
duce underage drinking by changing local 
conditions in communities; and 
‘‘(vi) enhance, not supplant, effective 
local community initiatives for preventing 
and reducing alcohol use among youth. 
‘‘(C) APPLICATION.—An eligible entity de-
siring an enhancement grant under this para-
graph shall submit an application to the Admin-
istrator at such time, and in such manner, and 
accompanied by such information as the Admin-
istrator may require. Each application shall in-
clude— 
‘‘(i) a complete description of the enti-
ty’s current underage alcohol use preven-
tion initiatives and how the grant will ap-
propriately enhance the focus on underage 
drinking issues; or 
‘‘(ii) a complete description of the en-
tity’s current initiatives, and how it will 
use this grant to enhance those initiatives 
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by adding a focus on underage drinking 
prevention. 
‘‘(D) USES OF FUNDS.—Each eligible enti-
ty that receives a grant under this paragraph 
shall use the grant funds to carry out the ac-
tivities described in such entity’s application 
submitted pursuant to subparagraph (C) and 
obtain specialized training and technical assist-
ance by the entity awarded a grant under sec-
tion 4 of Public Law 107–82, as amended (21 
U.S.C. 1521 note), reauthorizing the Drug-Free 
Communities Support Program. Grants under 
this paragraph shall not exceed $50,000 per 
year and may not exceed four years. 
‘‘(E) 
SUPPLEMENT
NOT
SUPPLANT.— 
Grant funds provided under this paragraph 
shall be used to supplement, not supplant, Fed-
eral and non-Federal funds available for car-
rying out the activities described in this para-
graph. 
‘‘(F) EVALUATION.—Grants under this 
paragraph shall be subject to the same evalua-
tion requirements and procedures as the evalua-
tion requirements and procedures imposed on 
recipients of drug free community grants. 
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‘‘(G) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this 
paragraph, the term ‘eligible entity’ means an 
organization that is currently receiving or has 
received grant funds under the Drug-Free Com-
munities Act of 1997 (21 U.S.C. 1521 et seq.). 
‘‘(H) ADMINISTRATIVE
EXPENSES.—Not 
more than 6 percent of a grant under this para-
graph may be expended for administrative ex-
penses. 
‘‘(I) 
AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIA-
TIONS.—There are authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this paragraph $6,000,000 
for fiscal year 2012, and $6,000,000 for each 
of the fiscal years 2013 through 2016. 
‘‘(2) GRANTS
FOR
PARTNERSHIPS
BETWEEN 
COMMUNITY
COALITIONS
AND
INSTITUTIONS
OF 
HIGHER EDUCATION.— 
‘‘(A) AUTHORIZATION OF PROGRAM.—The 
Administrator of the Substance Abuse and 
Mental Health Services Administration, in co-
ordination with the Director of the Office of 
National Drug Control Policy, may make grants 
to eligible entities to enable the entities to pre-
vent, and reduce the rate of, underage alcohol 
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