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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 May 6, 2025

Latest action (May 6, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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

Summary
  • Expands a federal grant program to allow grants for developing and implementing research-based public service announcement campaigns targeted at youth substance use prevention
  • Allows PSA campaigns to use television, radio, print, outdoor, and digital formats, and includes public service announcement contests that solicit youth submissions
  • Requires the Attorney General to publish annual reports on granted PSA campaigns including descriptions, research basis, regional messaging, alignment with other prevention efforts, and effectiveness evaluations

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)
2 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. May 6, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. · senate
  2. May 6, 2025 Introduced in Senate

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 69%
  • HR 6902 — Youth Substance Use Prevention and Awareness Act · Introduced Dec 18, 2025 · Cong. 119 68%
  • HR 3968 — School Violence Prevention Act · Introduced Jun 12, 2025 · Cong. 119 64%
  • S 329 — Keeping Drugs Out of Schools Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 30, 2025 · Cong. 119 64%
  • S 1675 — Recidivism Reduction and Public Safety Act of 2014 · Introduced Dec 9, 2014 · Cong. 113 63%
  • S 362 — Anti-Gang and Youth Violence Act of 1997 · Introduced Oct 15, 1998 · Cong. 105 62%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in Senate · May 6, 2025

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Full text

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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