Youth Substance Use Prevention and Awareness Act
Sponsored By: Senator Kelly, Mark [D-AZ]
Introduced
Summary
Creates a federal grant program for research-based youth substance-use public service announcements. This bill would fund age-appropriate PSAs across television, radio, print, outdoor, and digital media and allow publicly accessible contests that let youth submit PSA ideas.
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- Families and youth: Funds targeted, age-appropriate campaigns intended to lower youth drug use by reaching kids where they get information.
- Community grantees: Grantees could develop, implement, or expand local PSA campaigns and run youth PSA contests to boost engagement.
- Oversight and evaluation: The Attorney General must publish an annual report for each grant that describes the campaign, the research behind it, any regional messaging, how it ties to other prevention work, and an evaluation of effectiveness.
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Grants for youth anti-drug PSAs
This bill would create grants to develop, expand, or run research-based public service announcements to prevent youth substance use. Grants could pay for TV, radio, print, outdoor, and digital PSAs. Grants could also fund public contests that ask young people to submit PSAs. The Attorney General would be required to publish a yearly report on each grant, describing the campaign, the research behind it, any regional messaging, how it fits the grantee’s prevention work, and an evaluation of success. These changes would take effect upon enactment.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Kelly, Mark [D-AZ]
AZ • D
Cosponsors
Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC]
NC • R
Sponsored 5/6/2025
Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
DE • D
Sponsored 5/6/2025
Roll Call Votes
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