‘‘(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. 
‘‘(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 
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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 
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’). 
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‘‘(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 
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. 
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‘‘(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 
and reduce underage drinking, focus-
ing particularly on programs and poli-
cies that support the adoption and en-
forcement of State policies designed to 
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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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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 2014, and 
$1,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2015 through 
2018. 
‘‘(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 2014 and 
2015 and such sums as necessary for each of the fis-
cal years 2016 through 2018. 
‘‘(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) serve as a catalyst for increased 
citizen participation and greater collabora-
tion among all sectors and organizations of 
a community that first demonstrates a 
long-term commitment to reducing alcohol 
use among youth; 
‘‘(iii) 
implement 
state-of-the-art 
science-based strategies to prevent and re-
duce underage drinking by changing local 
conditions in communities; and 
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‘‘(iv) 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 in accordance with the 
purposes described in subparagraph (B). Each 
application shall include— 
‘‘(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 
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 
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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. 
‘‘(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.). 
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‘‘(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 2014, and $6,000,000 for each 
of the fiscal years 2015 through 2018. 
‘‘(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 
consumption, including binge drinking among 
students at institutions of higher education. 
‘‘(B) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this 
paragraph are to— 
‘‘(i) prevent and reduce alcohol use 
among underage students at institutions of 
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higher education and the surrounding com-
munity; 
‘‘(ii) strengthen collaboration among 
communities and institutions of higher 
education; and 
‘‘(iii) disseminate to institutions of 
higher education timely information re-
garding 
state-of-the-art 
science-based 
strategies to prevent and reduce underage 
drinking by changing local conditions at in-
stitutions of higher education and in the 
surrounding community. 
‘‘(C) APPLICATIONS.—An eligible entity 
(as defined in subparagraph (H)) that desires 
to receive a grant under this paragraph shall 
submit an application to the Administrator at 
such time, in such manner, and accompanied by 
such information as the Administrator may re-
quire. 
‘‘(D) CRITERIA.—As part of an application 
for a grant under this paragraph, the Adminis-
trator shall require an eligible entity to dem-
onstrate— 
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‘‘(i) the active participation of one or 
more institutions of higher education in 
the relevant eligible entity coalition; 
‘‘(ii) a description of how the eligible 
entity will work with one or more institu-
tions of higher education to target under-
age students; 
‘‘(iii) a description of how the eligible 
entity intends to ensure that it has a part-
nership with one or more institutions of 
higher education and how it intends to im-
plement the purpose of this section and 
move toward indicators described in sub-
paragraph (F); 
‘‘(iv) a list of the members of each 
local coalition and institution of higher 
education that will be involved in the work 
of the eligible entity; 
‘‘(v) the implementation of state-of- 
the-art science-based strategies to prevent 
and reduce underage drinking by changing 
local conditions at institutions of higher 
education and in the surrounding commu-
nity; 
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‘‘(vi) the anticipated impact of funds 
provided under this paragraph in pre-
venting and reducing the rates of underage 
alcohol use; 
‘‘(vii) outreach strategies, including 
ways in which the eligible entity proposes 
to— 
‘‘(I) reach out to students and 
community stakeholders; 
‘‘(II) promote the purpose of this 
paragraph; 
‘‘(III) address the range of needs 
of underage students and the sur-
rounding communities; 
‘‘(IV) address community policies 
affecting underage students regarding 
alcohol use; and 
‘‘(V) implement other science- 
based strategies to reduce underage 
drinking; and 
‘‘(viii) such additional information as 
required by the Administrator. 
‘‘(E) USES OF FUNDS.—Each eligible enti-
ty that receives a grant under this paragraph 
shall use the grant funds to carry out the ac-
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tivities described in such entity’s application 
pursuant to subparagraph (D). Grants under 
this paragraph shall not exceed $100,000 per 
year and may not exceed four years. 
‘‘(F) ACCOUNTABILITY.—On the date on 
which the Administrator first publishes a notice 
in the Federal Register soliciting applications 
for grants under this paragraph, the Adminis-
trator shall include in the notice achievement 
indicators for the program authorized under 
this paragraph. The achievement indicators 
shall be designed to— 
‘‘(i) measure the impact that the coa-
lition assisted under this paragraph is hav-
ing on the institution of higher education 
and the surrounding communities, includ-
ing changes in the number of incidents of 
any kind in which students have abused al-
cohol or consumed alcohol while under the 
age of 21 (including violations, physical as-
saults, sexual assaults, reports of intimida-
tion, disruptions of school functions, dis-
ruptions of student studies, mental health 
referrals, illnesses, alcohol-related trans-
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ports 
to 
emergency 
departments, 
or 
deaths); and 
‘‘(ii) provide such other measures of 
program impact as the Administrator de-
termines appropriate. 
‘‘(G) 
SUPPLEMENT
NOT
SUPPLANT.— 
Grant funds provided under this paragraph 
shall be used to supplement, and not supplant, 
Federal and non-Federal funds available for 
carrying out the activities described in this 
paragraph. 
‘‘(H) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this 
paragraph: 
‘‘(i) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘el-
igible entity’ means an organization that— 
‘‘(I) on or before the date of sub-
mitting an application for a grant 
under this subsection is currently re-
ceiving or has received grant funds 
under the Drug-Free Communities 
Act of 1997 (21 U.S.C. 1521 et seq.); 
‘‘(II) can provide evidence of pre-
existing involvement of one or more 
institutions of higher education; and 
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‘‘(III) has a documented strategy 
to prevent and reduce underage drink-
ing by students at institutions of 
higher education as part of its multi- 
sector, community-based strategy. 
‘‘(ii) INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDU-
CATION.—The term ‘institution of higher 
education’ has the meaning given the term 
in section 101(a) of the Higher Education 
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a)). 
‘‘(iii) SURROUNDING
COMMUNITY.— 
The term ‘surrounding community’ means 
the community— 
‘‘(I) that surrounds an institution 
of higher education; 
‘‘(II) where the students from 
the institution of higher education 
take part in the community; and 
‘‘(III) where students from the 
institution of higher education live in 
off-campus housing. 
‘‘(I) 
ADMINISTRATIVE
EXPENSES.—Not 
more than 6 percent of a grant under this para-
graph may be expended for administrative ex-
penses. 
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‘‘(J) 
AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIA-
TIONS.—There are authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this paragraph $2,500,000 
for fiscal year 2014, and $2,500,000 for each 
of the fiscal years 2015 through 2018. 
‘‘(f) REDUCING UNDERAGE DRINKING THROUGH 
SCREENING AND BRIEF INTERVENTION.— 
‘‘(1) GRANTS
TO
PEDIATRIC
HEALTH
CARE 
PROVIDERS TO REDUCE UNDERAGE DRINKING.—The 
Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the 
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Ad-
ministration, shall make one or more grants to pro-
fessional pediatric provider organizations to increase 
among the members of such organizations effective 
practices to reduce the prevalence of alcohol use 
among individuals under the age of 21, including 
college students. 
‘‘(2) PURPOSES.—Grants under this subsection 
shall be made to promote the practices of— 
‘‘(A) screening children and adolescents for 
alcohol use; 
‘‘(B) offering brief interventions to chil-
dren and adolescents to discourage such use; 
‘‘(C) educating parents about the dangers 
of and methods of discouraging such use; 
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‘‘(D) diagnosing and treating alcohol abuse 
disorders; and 
‘‘(E) referring patients, when necessary, to 
other appropriate care. 
‘‘(3) USE OF FUNDS.—An organization receiv-
ing a grant under this subsection may use such 
funding to promote the practices specified in para-
graph (B) among its members by— 
‘‘(A) providing training to health care pro-
viders; 
‘‘(B) disseminating best practices, includ-
ing culturally and linguistically appropriate best 
practices, and developing, printing, and distrib-
uting materials; and 
‘‘(C) offering other activities approved by 
the Secretary. 
‘‘(4) APPLICATION.—An organization desiring a 
grant under this subsection shall submit an applica-
tion to the Secretary at such time, and in such man-
ner, and accompanied by such information as the 
Secretary may require. Each application shall in-
clude— 
‘‘(A) a description of the organization and 
how its members are qualified to provide the 
services specified in paragraph (2); 
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‘‘(B) a description of activities to be com-
pleted; and 
‘‘(C) a timeline for the completion of such 
activities. 
‘‘(5) DEFINITIONS.—For the purpose of this 
subsection: 
‘‘(A) The term ‘pediatric health care pro-
vider’ means a provider of primary health care 
to individuals under the age of 21. 
‘‘(B) The term ‘professional pediatric pro-
vider organization’ means a national organiza-
tion whose members consist primarily of pedi-
atric health care providers. 
‘‘(C) The term ‘children and adolescents’ 
means any person under 21 years of age. 
‘‘(D) The term ‘alcohol education’ means 
evidence-based education about the effects of al-
cohol use and abuse on children, adolescents, 
and adults. 
‘‘(E) The term ‘screening and brief inter-
vention’ means using validated patient interview 
techniques to identify and assess the existence 
and extent of alcohol use, then providing brief 
advice and other brief motivational enhance-
ment techniques designed to increase patient in-
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sight regarding their own alcohol use and any 
realized or potential consequences of this behav-
ior, as well as to effect the desired related be-
havioral change. 
‘‘(F) The term ‘caregivers’ means, with re-
spect to a child or adolescent, the parents, fam-
ily members, or legal guardians of the child or 
adolescent. 
‘‘(6) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this subsection $3,000,000 for fiscal year 2014, and 
$3,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2015 through 
2018. 
‘‘(g) DATA COLLECTION AND RESEARCH.— 
‘‘(1) ADDITIONAL
RESEARCH
ON
UNDERAGE 
DRINKING.—The Secretary shall, subject to the 
availability of appropriations, collect data, and con-
duct or support research that is not duplicative of 
research currently being conducted or supported by 
the Department of Health and Human Services, on 
underage drinking, with respect to the following: 
‘‘(A) Improve data collection in support of 
evaluation of the effectiveness of comprehensive 
community-based programs or strategies and 
statewide systems to prevent and reduce under-
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age drinking, across the underage years from 
early childhood to age 21, such as programs 
funded and implemented by government enti-
ties, public health interest groups and founda-
tions, and alcohol beverage companies and trade 
associations, through the development of models 
of State-level epidemiological surveillance of un-
derage drinking by funding in States or large 
metropolitan areas new epidemiologists focused 
on excessive drinking including underage alco-
hol use. 
‘‘(B) Obtain and report more precise infor-
mation than is currently collected on the scope 
of the underage drinking problem and patterns 
of underage alcohol consumption, including im-
proved knowledge about the problem and 
progress in preventing, reducing, and treating 
underage drinking; as well as information on 
the rate of exposure of youth to advertising and 
other media messages encouraging and discour-
aging alcohol consumption. 
‘‘(C) Synthesize, expand on, and widely 
disseminate existing research on effective strat-
egies for reducing underage drinking, including 
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translational research, and make this research 
easily accessible to the general public. 
‘‘(D) Improve and conduct public health 
surveillance on alcohol use and alcohol-related 
conditions in States by increasing the use of 
surveys, such as the Behavioral Risk Factor 
Surveillance System, to monitor binge and ex-
cessive drinking and related harms among indi-
viduals who are at least 18 years of age, but 
not more than 20 years of age, including harm 
caused to self or others as a result of alcohol 
use that is not duplicative of research currently 
being conducted or supported by the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services. 
‘‘(2) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this subsection $4,500,000 for each of the fiscal 
years 2014 through 2018.’’. 
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