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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.
Summary
The Youth Substance Use Prevention and Awareness Act expands grant programs under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act to support the development and implementation of public service announcement campaigns focused on youth substance use prevention. These campaigns can use age-appropriate materials across television, radio, print, outdoor, and digital formats, and can include contests soliciting youth-created public service announcements. The Attorney General is required to publish an annual report on all grants awarded for these campaigns, including descriptions of each campaign, the research that informed its development, any regional messaging used, and an evaluation of the campaign's effectiveness at reducing youth drug use rates. The report must also describe how each campaign supports the grantee's other substance use prevention initiatives.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Kelly, Mark [D-AZ] (D-AZ)
2 cosponsors
Actions (2)
- May 6, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. · senate
- May 6, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
May 6, 2025
Mr. Kelly (for himself, Mr. Tillis, and Mr. Coons) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 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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