STOP Act

Bill: 109-hr-864
Sponsor: Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-34]
Introduced: 2005-02-16 in the House
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: 2005-02-16
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.

action_date: 2006-11-14
text: 
Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act or the STOP Underage Drinking Act - 
Title I: Sense of Congress
 - (Sec. 101) Expresses the sense of Congress with regard to addressing the problem of underage drinking.
 

Title II: Interagency Coordinating Committee; Annual Report on State Underage Drinking Prevention and Enforcement Activities - 
(Sec. 201) Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to formally establish and enhance the efforts of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking that began operating in 2004. Requires the Committee to guide policy and program development across the federal government with respect to underage drinking. Sets forth reporting requirements.
 
(Sec. 202) Requires the Secretary to issue an annual report on each state's performance in preventing or reducing underage drinking. Requires the Secretary to develop a set of measures to be used in preparing the report on best practices and to consider including measures on whether a state: (1) has comprehensive anti-underage drinking laws; (2) encourages and conducts comprehensive enforcement efforts at retail outlets; (3) mandates or encourages training on the proper selling and serving of alcohol as a condition of employment; (4) has programs or laws to deter adults from purchasing alcohol for minors; and (5) has programs targeted to youths, parents, and caregivers to deter underage drinking. 
 
(Sec. 203) Authorizes appropriations.
 

Title III: National Media Campaign
 - (Sec. 301) Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to continue to fund and oversee the production, broadcasting, and evaluation of the Ad Council's national adult-oriented media public service campaign. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations.
 

Title IV: Interventions
 - (Sec. 401) Requires the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to award enhancement grants to eligible entities to design, test, evaluate, and disseminate effective strategies to maximize the effectiveness of community-wide approaches to preventing and reducing underage drinking. Authorizes appropriations.
 
(Sec. 402) Requires the Secretary of Education to: (1) award grants to eligible entities to prevent and reduce the rate of underage alcohol consumption, including binge drinking, among students at institutions of higher education; and (2) publish achievement indicators for the program. Authorizes appropriations.
 

Title V: Additional Research
 - (Sec. 501) Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to collect data and conduct or support research on underage drinking with respect to: (1) comprehensive community-based programs or strategies and statewide systems to prevent and reduce drinking from early childhood to age 21; (2) obtaining and reporting more precise information on the scope of the underage drinking problem and patterns exhibited in underage alcohol consumption; and (3) compiling information on the involvement of alcohol in unnatural deaths of persons age 12 to 20 in the United States.
 
Requires the Secretary to carry out activities to: (1) obtain epidemiological data within the National Epidemiological Study on Alcoholism and Related Conditions and other national or targeted 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; and (2) develop or identify successful clinical treatments for youth with alcohol problems. Requires such research to meet current federal standards for scientific peer review. Authorizes appropriations.

action_date: 2006-12-20
text: 
Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act or the STOP Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act with respect to underage drinking. Expresses the sense of Congress with regard to addressing the problem of underage drinking.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to formally establish and enhance the efforts of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking that began operating in 2004. Requires the Committee to guide policy and program development across the federal government with respect to underage drinking. Sets forth reporting requirements.
 
Requires the Secretary to issue an annual report on each state's performance in preventing or reducing underage drinking. Requires the Secretary to develop a set of measures to be used in preparing the report on best practices and to consider including measures on whether a state: (1) has comprehensive anti-underage drinking laws; (2) encourages and conducts comprehensive enforcement efforts to prevent underage access to alcohol at retail outlets; (3) encourages training on the proper selling and serving of alcohol as a condition of employment; (4) has programs or laws to deter adults from purchasing alcohol for minors; and (5) has programs targeted to youths, parents, and caregivers to deter underage drinking. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to continue to fund and oversee the production, broadcasting, and evaluation of the national adult-oriented media public service campaign, if the Secretary determines that such campaign is effective in achieving the media campaign's measurable objectives. Sets forth reporting requirements. 
 
Requires the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, subject to the availability of appropriations, to award enhancement grants to eligible entities to design, test, evaluate, and disseminate effective strategies to maximize the effectiveness of community-wide approaches to preventing and reducing underage drinking, if the Administrator determines that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is not currently conducting duplicative activities.
 
Requires the Secretaryof Education to: (1) award grants to eligible entities to prevent and reduce the rate of underage alcohol consumption, including binge drinking, among students at institutions of higher education; and (2) publish achievement indicators for the program. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, subject to the availability of appropriations, to collect data and conduct or support research that is not duplicative of research currently being conducted or supported by HHS, on underage drinking with respect to: (1) comprehensive community-based programs or strategies and statewide systems to prevent and reduce drinking from early childhood to age 21; (2) obtaining and reporting more precise information on the scope of the underage drinking problem and patterns of underage alcohol consumption; and (3) compiling information on the involvement of alcohol in unnatural deaths of persons age 12 to 20 in the United States.
 
Requires the Secretary to carry out activities to: (1) obtain epidemiological data within the national or targeted 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; and (2) develop or identify successful clinical treatments for youth with alcohol problems. Requires such research to meet current federal standards for scientific peer review. 
 
Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-20
text: Became Public Law No: 109-422.
action_date: 2006-12-20
text: Became Public Law No: 109-422.
action_date: 2006-12-20
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2006-12-20
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2006-12-11
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2006-12-11
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: On motion that the House suspend the rules and agree to the Senate amendment Agreed to by voice vote. (text as House agreed to Senate amendment: CR H8901-8903)
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Resolving differences -- House actions: On motion that the House suspend the rules and agree to the Senate amendment Agreed to by voice vote.(text as House agreed to Senate amendment: CR H8901-8903)
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on the motion to suspend the rules and agree to the Senate amendment to H.R. 864.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Mr. Burgess moved that the House suspend the rules and agree to the Senate amendment. (consideration: CR H8901-8904)
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR 12/7/2006 S11375-11376)
action_date: 2006-11-15
text: Received in the Senate, read twice.
action_date: 2006-11-14
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2006-11-14
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 373 - 23 (Roll no. 521). (text: CR H8628-8631)
action_date: 2006-11-14
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 373 - 23 (Roll no. 521).(text: CR H8628-8631)
action_date: 2006-11-14
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H8638)
action_date: 2006-11-14
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2006-11-14
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 864.
action_date: 2006-11-14
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8628-8635)
action_date: 2006-11-14
text: Mr. Deal (GA) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-16
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 109-422