Kentucky to drug test welfare recipients.

[bigbulls]

It's about time that government begins requiring drug screening for those that are receiving "assistance" money from the tax payers that are required to under go the same screening in the private sector.


http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB208.htm

(10) (a) The cabinet shall design and implement a substance abuse screening program for adult persons receiving or seeking to receive monetary public assistance, food stamps under the federal food stamp program, or assistance under the state medical assistance program, with the screening program including periodic testing of the person's blood or urine for the presence of controlled substances as set out in this section.
(b) An adult person shall be ineligible for public assistance if:
1. The person does not participate in the substance abuse screening program established under this section; or
2. The person tests positive in a substance abuse test administered by the program for the presence of:
a. A schedule I controlled substance; or
b. A schedule II - V controlled substance not prescribed for that person.
(c) The substance abuse testing component of the screening program shall be designed so as to require that testing occurs as an initial condition precedent prior to the receipt of public assistance and once for each subsequent year the adult person receives public assistance, with the person being randomly assigned a month within that year to submit to testing upon receipt of reasonable notice from the cabinet.
(d) The results of testing conducted under this subsection shall not be admissible in any criminal proceeding without the consent of the person tested.
(e) The secretary shall by administrative regulation prescribe the design, operation, and standards for the implementation of this section.

[Lubricious]

Way to go Kentucky! Hopefully more states will follow their lead.

[burniegoeasily]

Wonder if this one will stick. Other states have tried, but the ACLU fought it, causing the law to be struck down as unconstitutional.

[Chuck7]

Amen..agreed.

[bigbulls]

Wonder if this on will stick. Other states have tried, but the ACLU fought it, causing the law to be struck down as unconstitutional.

What exactly could be considered unconstitutional about a drug test to receive "free money" if it isn't unconstitutional to maintain a private or government job?

[Fieldmouse]

Originally Posted by bigbulls

What exactly could be considered unconstitutional about a drug test to receive "free money" if it isn't unconstitutional to maintain a private or government job?

Because the liberals have made it a right to be on welfare and if you follow Clayburn, D congressman from GA, healthcare is a right spelled out clearly by the 14th amendment.

[burniegoeasily]

Originally Posted by bigbulls

What exactly could be considered unconstitutional about a drug test to receive "free money" if it isn't unconstitutional to maintain a private or government job?

I don’t know. I posted a thread hear, a few years ago about a women who got denied welfare due to a drug test. The ACLU took the state to court and won. The women was allowed to keep receiving welfare and the state had to quit drug testing. I cannot recall which state.

[bergall]

Seems to me then, that welfare is a health hazard, insofar as it has been repeatedly shown to be mis-spent on illegal/controlled substances for purposes of abuse. Maybe the program should be ended...let's get the EPA on that right away....or maybe the Surgeon General ....