[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 906 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 906

To authorize public awareness campaigns to promote the persistent quest 
           for knowledge and increased education among youth.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 2011

Mr. Cohen (for himself, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Mr. Carson of Indiana, 
 Mr. Ellison, Mr. Rush, Ms. Richardson, and Ms. Fudge) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                             the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize public awareness campaigns to promote the persistent quest 
           for knowledge and increased education among youth.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; PURPOSE.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Positive Reduction 
of Incarceration by Maximizing Education Act'' or the ``PRIME Act''.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to promote the persistent 
quest for knowledge and increased education among youth, thereby 
decreasing the influx of youth in penitentiaries in the United States 
by exposing youth to the value of increased education.

SEC. 2. PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION AMONG 
              YOUTH.

    (a) Public Awareness Campaigns.--The Attorney General, through the 
Director of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 
shall utilize existing resources allocated to the Department of Justice 
to establish national, regional, and local public awareness campaigns 
focused on promoting the advantages of continued education among youth, 
including the decreased likelihood of incarceration for youth who 
continue to pursue education. In carrying out this section, the 
Attorney General may use advertising through television, radio, print 
media, billboards, posters, the Internet, and any other methods 
determined to be appropriate by the Attorney General.
    (b) Report.--Not later than October 1 of each year after the date 
of enactment of this section, the Attorney General, through the 
Director of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 
shall submit to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committees on 
the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Senate a report 
that describes the activities carried out under this section during the 
preceding year.
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