Underage Drinking Prevention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4453
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2007-12-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alcohol and youth
Alcoholism
Cost effectiveness
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government statistics
Juvenile delinquency
Parent and child
Parent-school relationships
Public service advertising
Social Welfare
Surveys

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: 
Underage Drinking Prevention Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) understanding which programs are effective in reducing underage drinking will maximize scarce federal resources and help confront underage drinking in a more effective, cost-efficient manner; (2) the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration should explore ways to expand and improve evaluation efforts; and (3) federal agencies should strive to evaluate all federally funded underage drinking programs and modify programs as needed to reach maximum effectiveness.

Requires the Director of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Programs to award grants to states and local governments to implement and evaluate enforcement and public education programs aimed at reducing the provision of alcohol by social sources to underage drinkers as part of the Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Program.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, as Chair of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking, to: (1) work with members of that Committee to improve federal data collection by ensuring that federally funded surveys related to underage drinking collect and report data in a consistent manner; and (2) establish a federal data improvement committee.

Requires the Secretary of Education to: (1) award grants on a competitive basis to local educational agencies to develop and implement innovative and effective programs to increase parental awareness and involvement in reducing underage drinking in elementary and secondary schools; and (2) identify existing, effective, national programs that increase parent-child interaction to prevent underage drinking and disseminate that information to such agencies for replication at the local level.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House