Youth Substance Use Prevention and Awareness Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6902 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6902

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

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                    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

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                                 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.
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