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—
(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.
(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-
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
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-
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.
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
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;
(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
(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
$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);
(4) a list of the members of the statewide coali-
tion or interested parties involved in the work of the 
eligible entity; 
(5) a description of how the eligible entity in-
tends to work with State agencies on substance 
abuse prevention and education; 
(6) the anticipated impact of funds provided 
under this Act in preventing and reducing the rates 
of underage alcohol use; 
(7) outreach strategies, including ways in which 
the eligible entity proposes to—
(A) reach out to students and community 
stakeholders; 
(B) promote the purpose of this Act; 
(C) address the range of needs of the stu-
dents and the surrounding communities; and 
(D) address community norms for under-
age students regarding alcohol use; and 
(8) such additional information as required by 
the Secretary. 
(c) 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 (b).
(d) ACCOUNTABILITY.—On the date on which the 
Secretary first publishes a notice in the Federal Register 
soliciting applications for grants under this section, the 
Secretary shall include in the notice achievement indica-
tors for the program authorized under this section. The 
achievement indicators shall be designed—
(1) to measure the impact that the statewide 
coalitions assisted under this Act are having on the 
institutions of higher education and the surrounding 
communities, including changes in the number of in-
cidents of any kind in which students have abused 
alcohol or consumed alcohol while under the age of 
21 (including violations, physical assaults, sexual as-
saults, reports of intimidation, disruptions of school 
functions, disruptions of student studies, mental 
health referrals, illnesses, or deaths); 
(2) to measure the quality and accessibility of 
the programs or information offered by the eligible 
entity; and 
(3) to provide such other measures of program 
impact as the Secretary determines appropriate. 
(e) SUPPLEMENT NOT SUPPLANT.—Grant funds 
provided under this Act shall be used to supplement, and 
not supplant, Federal and non-Federal funds available for 
carrying out the activities described in this section.
(f) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section: 
(1) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘‘eligible enti-
ty’’ means a State, institution of higher education, 
or nonprofit entity. 
(2) INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION.—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)). 
(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Education. 
(4) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each of 
the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. 
(5) STATEWIDE COALITION.—The term ‘‘state-
wide coalition’’ means a coalition that—
(A) includes, but is not limited to—
(i) institutions of higher education 
within a State; and 
(ii) a nonprofit group, a community 
underage drinking prevention coalition, or 
another substance abuse prevention group 
within a State; and 
(B) works toward lowering the alcohol 
abuse rate by targeting underage students at
institutions of higher education throughout the 
State and in the surrounding communities. 
(6) SURROUNDING
COMMUNITY.—The term 
‘‘surrounding community’’ means the community—
(A) that surrounds an institution of higher 
education participating in a statewide coalition; 
(B) where the students from the institu-
tion of higher education take part in the com-
munity; and 
(C) where students from the institution of 
higher education live in off-campus housing. 
(g) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—Not more than 5 
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 
$5,000,000 for fiscal year 2007, and $5,000,000 for each 
of the fiscal years 2008 through 2010. 
TITLE V—ADDITIONAL 
RESEARCH 
SEC. 501. ADDITIONAL RESEARCH ON UNDERAGE DRINK-
ING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall collect data on, and conduct or sup-
port research on, underage drinking with respect to the 
following: 
(1) Comprehensive community-based programs 
or strategies and statewide systems to prevent and 
reduce underage drinking, across the underage years 
from early childhood to age 21, including programs 
funded and implemented by government entities, 
public health interest groups and foundations, and 
alcohol beverage companies and trade associations. 
(2) Annually obtain and report more precise in-
formation than is currently collected on the scope of 
the underage drinking problem and patterns exhib-
ited in underage alcohol consumption, including im-
proved knowledge of both the problem and progress 
in preventing, reducing and treating underage drink-
ing; as well as information on the rate of exposure 
of youth to advertising and other media messages 
encouraging and discouraging alcohol consumption. 
(3) Compiling information on the involvement 
of alcohol in unnatural deaths of persons ages 12 to 
20 in the United States, including suicides, homi-
cides, and unintentional injuries such as falls, 
drownings, burns, poisonings, and motor vehicle 
crash deaths.
(b) CERTAIN MATTERS.—The Secretary of Health 
and Human Services shall carry out activities toward the 
following objectives with respect to underage drinking: 
(1) Obtaining new epidemiological data within 
the National Epidemiological Study on Alcoholism 
and Related Conditions and other national or tar-
geted surveys that identify alcohol use and attitudes 
about alcohol use during pre- and early adolescence, 
including harm caused to self or others as a result 
of adolescent alcohol use such as violence, date rape, 
risky sexual behavior, and prenatal alcohol exposure. 
(2) Developing or identifying successful clinical 
treatments for youth with alcohol problems. 
(c) PEER REVIEW.—Research under section 501 
must meet current Federal standards for scientific peer 
review. 
SEC. 502. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
section 501 $6,000,000 for fiscal year 2007, and