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Youth Substance Use Prevention and Awareness Act

To promote public service announcement campaigns targeted at youth substance use prevention, and for other purposes.

Introduced Dec 18, 2025

Latest action (Dec 18, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Referred to
Judiciary Committee
Policy area
Crime and Law Enforcement
Issues
Criminal JusticeEducationHealthcare

Summary
  • Expands the grant program to include developing, implementing, or expanding research-based public service announcement campaigns targeted at youth substance use prevention.
  • Allows grants to fund public service announcements on television, radio, print, outdoor, and digital platforms, as well as contests that solicit youth-created public service announcements.
  • Requires the Attorney General to publish an annual report on grants awarded for these public service announcement campaigns.
  • Requires the annual report to include descriptions of each campaign, the research behind it, any regional or geographic-specific messaging, and how it supports other substance use prevention efforts.
  • Requires the annual report to include an evaluation of each campaign's effectiveness at reducing the rate of drug use by youth.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
4 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Derek Tran’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • PANISH, SHEA, BOYLE, ET AL. $16,200
  • GOOGLE LLC $16,138
  • SINGLETON SCHREIBER $13,200
  • ALTAIR LAW $13,200
  • MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL $12,600

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Derek Tran → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Dec 18, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
  2. Dec 18, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 2327 — National Youth Crime Prevention Demonstration Act · Introduced Oct 13, 1998 · Cong. 105 72%
  • HR 894 — Keeping Drugs Out of Schools Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 31, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • S 329 — Keeping Drugs Out of Schools Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 30, 2025 · Cong. 119 68%
  • S 1611 — Youth Substance Use Prevention and Awareness Act · Introduced May 6, 2025 · Cong. 119 68%
  • S 3006 — Youth Prevention and Recovery Reauthorization Act of 2025 · Introduced Oct 14, 2025 · Cong. 119 65%
  • HR 5430 — FORTIFY Act · Introduced Sep 17, 2025 · Cong. 119 64%

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

December 18, 2025

Mr. Tran (for himself, Mr. Hurd of Colorado, and Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To promote public service announcement campaigns targeted at youth substance use prevention, and for other purposes.

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 the “Youth Substance Use Prevention and Awareness Act”.

SEC. 2. GRANT USE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT CAMPAIGNS.

(a) Expansion of Grant Program.—Section 3021(a) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10701(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(11) Developing, implementing, or expanding research- based public service announcement campaign programs targeted at youth substance use prevention using age-appropriate material, including—

“(A) television, radio, print, outdoor, and digital public service announcements; and

“(B) public service announcement contests that solicit youth public service announcement submissions.”.

(b) Reporting Requirements.—The Attorney General shall publish an annual report on any grants awarded for public service announcement campaigns under paragraph (11) of section 3021(a) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10701(a)), as added by subsection (a), that includes, which respect to each such public service announcement campaign—

(1) a description of the grant awarded and the public service announcement campaign funded by the grant;

(2) the research used to inform and develop the public service announcement campaign funded by the grant;

(3) any regional or geographic-specific messaging used as part of the public service announcement campaign;

(4) a description of how the public service announcement campaign funded by the grant supports the other substance use prevention initiatives or strategy of the grantee; and

(5) an evaluation of the success of the public service announcement campaign, such as the effectiveness of the campaign at reducing the rate of drug use by youth. <all>

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