STOP Underage Drinking Act

Bill: 108-s-2718
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accidents
Advertising
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol and youth
Alcoholic beverages
Alcoholism
Brain
Caregivers
Child development
Child health
Child welfare
Citizen participation
College sports
Colleges
Commerce
Community and school
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Death
Driver licenses
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Drunk driving
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic commerce
Epidemiology
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Higher education
Homicide
Intergovernmental relations
Internet
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Law
Liability (Law)
Medical research
Motion pictures
Nonprofit organizations
Parents
Performance measurement
Public service advertising
Radio broadcasting
Rape
Research grants
Retail trade
School health programs
Science, Technology, Communications
Sex
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
State laws
Students
Suicide
Surveys
Television
Television advertising
Television broadcasting of sports
Television industry
Traffic accidents and safety
Transportation and Public Works
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act or STOP Underage Drinking Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish an interagency coordinating committee to guide policy and program development across the Federal Government on underage drinking; (2) issue an annual report card to rate the performance of each State in enacting, enforcing, and creating laws, regulations, and programs to prevent or reduce underage drinking; (3) develop a set of outcome measures to prepare report cards, including the strictness of the minimum drinking age laws and the number of compliance checks conducted; (4) fund and oversee the Ad Council's national adult-oriented media public service campaign; (5) award grants to reduce the rate of underage alcohol use and binge drinking among students at institutions of higher education; and (6) collect data on, and conduct or support research on, underage drinking, including the impact alcohol use and abuse has upon adolescent brain development, the scope of the underage drinking problem, and progress in preventing and treating underage drinking.
 
Requires the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy to award grants to design, test, evaluate, and disseminate strategies to maximize the effectiveness of community-wide approaches to preventing and reducing underage drinking.
 
Requires the Secretary to carry out activities toward the objectives of: (1) testing every unnatural death of persons ages 12 to 20 for alcohol involvement; (2) obtaining new epidemiological data that identifies alcohol use and attitudes about alcohol use during pre- and early adolescence; and (3) developing or identifying successful clinical treatment for youth with alcohol problems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8692-8695)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8692)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate