Underage Drinking Prevention Act of 2007

To establish a grant to increase enforcement of laws to prohibit underage drinking through social sources, to improve reporting of Federal underage drinking data, to establish grants to increase parental involvement in school-based efforts to reduce underage drinking, and for other purposes.

11/15/2007--Introduced.
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.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Edolphus Towns [D, NY-10]
• and 6 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Shelley Berkley [D, NV-1]
  • Rep. Barton Gordon [D, TN-6]
  • Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D, TX-18]
  • Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [R, FL-18]
  • Rep. Edward Whitfield [R, KY-1]
  • Rep. Albert Wynn [D, MD-4]
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Committees

• House Energy and Commerce
• 2 more
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Education and Labor
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.4194

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
November 15, 2007

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• Nov 15, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
• Nov 15, 2007: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
• Nov 15, 2007: Referred to House Education and Labor
• Nov 15, 2007: 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.
• Introduced on Nov 15, 2007.

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Related Bills:

• H.R.4453

Related Issue Areas:

• Surveys
• Social services
• Public service advertising
• Parent-school relationships
• 23 more
• Parent and child
• Juvenile delinquency
• Government statistics
• Government publicity
• Government paperwork
• Government information
• Federal aid to law enforcement
• Federal aid to education
• Federal advisory bodies
• Families
• Executive departments
• Evaluation research (Social action programs)
• Elementary and secondary education
• Education
• Drug abuse prevention
• Criminal justice
• Cost effectiveness
• Communications
• Children
• Budgets
• Alcoholism
• Alcohol and youth
• Drug abuse

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