Bree’s Law
Bill: S.2364 | Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa (R-AK)
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Bree's Law
This bill reauthorizes through FY2026 certain adolescent health demonstration projects, and it changes their focus from reducing violence among minority males to reducing teen dating violence. The bill also establishes an interagency work group to examine and report on federal efforts for reducing and preventing teen dating violence.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for demonstration 
   grants and create a Federal Work Group to reduce and prevent the 
                   incidence of teen dating violence.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as ``Bree's Law''.

SEC. 2. TEEN DATING VIOLENCE PREVENTION.

    Section 1708 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300u-7) is 
amended by--
            (1) striking subsection (c) and inserting the following:
    ``(c) Certain Demonstration Projects.--
            ``(1) In general.--In carrying out subsection (b)(3), the 
        Secretary may make grants to carry out demonstration projects 
        for the purpose of improving adolescent health, including--
                    ``(A) projects to train health care providers in 
                providing services to adolescents; and
                    ``(B) projects to reduce the incidence of violence 
                among adolescents, particularly violence related to 
                teen dating, which shall include projects to develop 
                and implement educational program to increase abuse 
                awareness and prevention.
            ``(2) Authorization of appropriations.--For the purpose of 
        carrying out paragraph (1), there are authorized to be 
        appropriated $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 
        2026.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Interagency Work Group.--
            ``(1) Establishment.--The Secretary shall establish the 
        Federal Interagency Work Group on Teen Dating Violence 
        (referred to in this section as the `Work Group').
            ``(2) In general.--
                    ``(A) Composition.--Not later than 120 days after 
                the date of enactment of Bree's Law, the Secretary 
                shall appoint representatives to the Work Group from 
                the Administration for Children and Families, the 
                Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Health 
                Resources and Services Administration, the Department 
                of Education, the Department of Justice, and other 
                Federal agencies as determined appropriate by the 
                Secretary.
                    ``(B) Consultation.--The Work Group shall consult 
                with--
                            ``(i) experts at the State, Tribal, and 
                        local levels with relevant backgrounds in 
                        reducing and preventing the incidence of teen 
                        dating violence;
                            ``(ii) victims of teen dating violence; and
                            ``(iii) family members of teens who were 
                        killed by a dating partner.
            ``(3) Duties.--The Work Group shall--
                    ``(A) examine all Federal efforts directed towards 
                reducing and preventing teen dating violence;
                    ``(B) identify strategies, resources, and supports 
                to improve State, Tribal, and local responses to the 
                incidence of teen dating violence;
                    ``(C) make recommendations to Congress for 
                improving Federal programs and efforts and coordination 
                across such programs and efforts to reduce and prevent 
                teen dating violence; and
                    ``(D) make recommendations for educating middle and 
                high school students on teen dating violence.
            ``(4) Annual report to secretary.--The Work Group shall 
        annually prepare and submit to the Secretary, the Committee on 
        Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate, and the 
        Committee on Education and Labor of the House of 
        Representatives, a report on the activities carried out by the 
        Work Group under subsection (c), including recommendations to 
        reduce and prevent teen dating violence.''.
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