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Healthy Media for Youth Act

Introduced: July 13, 2010 Introduced by: Baldwin, Tammy Democratic · Wisconsin See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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Healthy Media for Youth Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants to nonprofit organizations to provide for the establishment, operation, coordination, and evaluation of programs to: (1) increase the media literacy of girls and boys, and (2) support the empowerment of girls or boys in a variety of ways. Permits giving priority to grant applicants providing non-federal matching funds.

Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and in coordination with the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, to review, synthesize, and conduct or support research on the role and impact of depictions of girls and women in the media on the psychological, sexual, physical, and interpersonal development of youth.

Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to convene a task force, to be known as the National Task Force on Girls and Women in the Media, to develop voluntary steps and goals for promoting healthy and positive depictions of girls and women in the media for the benefit of all youth.

What's happening now March 24, 2010

Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4925: Healthy Media for Youth Act. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-4925/
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