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Calendar No. 47
105th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 536
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A BILL
To amend the National Narcotics Leadership Act of 1988 to establish a
program to support and encourage local communities that first
demonstrate a comprehensive, long-term commitment to reduce substance
abuse among youth, and for other purposes.
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May 8, 1997
Reported with an amendment
Calendar No. 47
105th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 536
To amend the National Narcotics Leadership Act of 1988 to establish a
program to support and encourage local communities that first
demonstrate a comprehensive, long-term commitment to reduce substance
abuse among youth, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
April 9, 1997
Mr. Grassley (for himself, Mr. DeWine, Mr. Daschle, Mr. Biden, Mr.
D'Amato, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Graham, Mr. Cleland, Mr. Hatch, Mr.
Harkin, Mr. Thurmond, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr.
Abraham, Mr. Reid, Mr. Feingold, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Cochran, Mr. Leahy,
Mr. Lugar, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Dorgan, Mr. Hagel, Mr. Wellstone, and Mr.
Kennedy) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
May 8, 1997
Reported by Mr. Hatch, with an amendment
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed
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A BILL
To amend the National Narcotics Leadership Act of 1988 to establish a
program to support and encourage local communities that first
demonstrate a comprehensive, long-term commitment to reduce substance
abuse among youth, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
<DELETED>SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.</DELETED>
<DELETED> This Act may be cited as the ``Drug-Free Communities Act
of 1997''.</DELETED>
<DELETED>SEC. 2. NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL PROGRAM.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (a) In General.--The National Narcotics Leadership Act of
1988 (21 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) is amended--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (1) by inserting between sections 1001 and 1002
the following:</DELETED>
<DELETED>``CHAPTER 1--OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL
POLICY'';</DELETED>
<DELETED>and</DELETED>
<DELETED> (2) by adding at the end the following:</DELETED>
<DELETED>``CHAPTER 2--DRUG-FREE COMMUNITIES</DELETED>
<DELETED>``SEC. 1021. FINDINGS.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``Congress finds the following:</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(1) Substance abuse among youth has more than
doubled in the 5-year period preceding 1996, with substantial
increases in the use of marijuana, inhalants, cocaine,
methamphetamine, LSD, and heroin.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(2) The most dramatic increases in substance
abuse has occurred among 13- and 14-year-olds.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(3) Casual or periodic substance abuse by youth
of 1997 will contribute to hard core or chronic substance abuse
by the next generation of adults.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(4) Substance abuse is at the core of other
problems, such as rising violent teenage and violent gang
crime, increasing health care costs, HIV infections, teenage
pregnancy, high school dropouts, and lower economic
productivity.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(5) Increases in substance abuse among youth are
due in large part to an erosion of understanding by youth of
the high risks associated with substance abuse, and to the
softening of peer norms against use.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(6)(A) Substance abuse is a preventable behavior
and a treatable disease; and</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(B)(i) during the 13-year period beginning with
1979, monthly use of illegal drugs among youth 12 to 17 years
of age declined by over 70 percent; and</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(ii) data suggests that if parents would simply
talk to their children regularly about the dangers of substance
abuse, use among youth could be expected to decline by as much
as 30 percent.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(7) Community anti-drug coalitions throughout
the United States are successfully developing and implementing
comprehensive, long-term strategies to reduce substance abuse
among youth on a sustained basis.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(8) Intergovernmental cooperation and
coordination through national, State, and local or tribal
leadership and partnerships are critical to facilitate the
reduction of substance abuse among youth in communities
throughout the United States.</DELETED>
<DELETED>``SEC. 1022. PURPOSES.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``The purposes of this chapter are--</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(1) to reduce substance abuse among youth in
communities throughout the United States, and over time, to
reduce substance abuse among adults;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(2) to strengthen collaboration among
communities, the Federal Government, and State, local, and
tribal governments;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(3) to enhance intergovernmental cooperation and
coordination on the issue of substance abuse among
youth;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(4) to serve as a catalyst for increased citizen
participation and greater collaboration among all sectors and
organizations of a community that first demonstrates a long-
term commitment to reducing substance abuse among
youth;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(5) to rechannel resources from the fiscal year
1998 Federal drug control budget to provide technical
assistance, guidance, and financial support to communities that
demonstrate a long-term commitment in reducing substance abuse
among youth;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(6) to disseminate to communities timely
information regarding the state-of-the-art practices and
initiatives that have proven to be effective in reducing
substance abuse among youth;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(7) to enhance, not supplant, local community
initiatives for reducing substance abuse among youth;
and</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(8) to encourage the creation of and support for
community anti-drug coalitions throughout the United
States.</DELETED>
<DELETED>``SEC. 1023. DEFINITIONS.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``In this chapter:</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(1) Administrator.--The term `Administrator'
means the Administrator appointed by the Director under section
1031(c).</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(2) Advisory commission.--The term `Advisory
Commission' means the Advisory Commission established under
section 1041.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(3) Community.--The term `community' shall have
the meaning provided that term by the Administrator, in
consultation with the Advisory Commission.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(4) Director.--The term `Director' means the
Director of the Office of National Drug Control
Policy.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(5) Eligible coalition.--The term `eligible
coalition' means a coalition that meets the applicable criteria
under section 1032(a).</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(6) Grant recipient.--The term `grant recipient'
means the recipient of a grant award under section
1032.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(7) Nonprofit organization.--The term `nonprofit
organization' means an organization described under section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that is exempt
from taxation under section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code
of 1986.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(8) Program.--The term `Program' means the
program established under section 1031(a).</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(9) Substance abuse.--The term `substance abuse'
means--</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(A) the illegal use or abuse of drugs,
including substances listed in schedules I through V of
section 112 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C.
812);</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(B) the abuses of inhalants;
and</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(C) the use of alcohol, tobacco, or
other related product prohibited by State or local
law.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(10) Youth.--The term `youth' shall have the
meaning provided that term by the Administrator, in
consultation with the Advisory Commission.</DELETED>
<DELETED>``SEC. 1024. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(a) In General.--There are authorized to be appropriated
to the Office of National Drug Control Policy to carry out this
chapter--</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(1) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1998;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(2) $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1999;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(3) $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2000;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(4) $40,000,000 for fiscal year 2001;
and</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(5) $43,500,000 for fiscal year 2002.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(b) Administrative Costs.--Not more than the following
percentages of the amounts authorized under subsection (a) may be used
to pay administrative costs:</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(1) 10 percent for fiscal year 1998.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(2) 6 percent for fiscal year 1999.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(3) 4 percent for fiscal year 2000.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(4) 3 percent for fiscal year 2001.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(5) 3 percent for fiscal year 2002.</DELETED>
<DELETED>``Subchapter I--Drug-Free Communities Support
Program</DELETED>
<DELETED>``SEC. 1031. ESTABLISHMENT OF DRUG-FREE COMMUNITIES SUPPORT
PROGRAM.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(a) Establishment.--The Director shall establish a
program to support communities in the development and implementation of
comprehensive, long-term plans and programs to prevent and treat
substance abuse among youth.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(b) Program.--In carrying out the Program, the Director
shall--</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(1) make and track grants to grant
recipients;</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(2) provide for technical assistance and
training, data collection, and dissemination of information on
state-of-the-art practices that the Administrator determines to
be effective in reducing substance abuse; and</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(3) provide for the general administration of
the Program.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(c) Administration.--Not later than 30 days after
receiving recommendations from the Advisory Commission under section
1042(a)(1), the Director shall appoint an Administrator to carry out
the Program.</DELETED>
<DELETED>``SEC. 1032. PROGRAM AUTHORIZATION.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(a) Grant Eligibility.--To be eligible to receive an
initial grant or a renewal grant under this subchapter, a coalition
shall meet each of the following criteria:</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(1) Application.--The coalition shall submit an
application to the Administrator in accordance with section
1033(a)(2).</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(2) Major sector involvement.--</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(A) In general.--The coalition shall
consist of 1 or more representatives of each of the
following categories:</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(i) Youth.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(ii) Parents.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(iii) Businesses.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(iv) The media.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(v) Schools.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(vi) Organizations serving
youth.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(vii) Law enforcement.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(viii) Religious
organizations.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(ix) Civic and fraternal
groups.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(x) Health care
professionals.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(xi) State, local, or tribal
governmental agencies with expertise in the
field of substance abuse (including, if
applicable, the State authority with primary
authority for substance abuse).</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(xii) Other organizations
involved in reducing substance abuse.</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(B) Elected officials.--If feasible, in
addition to representatives from the categories listed
in subparagraph (A), the coalition shall have an
elected official (or a representative of an elected
official) from--</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(i) the Federal Government;
and</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(ii) the government of the
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