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Related: About this forumBill to test welfare applicants for drugs approved
Drug testing for Texas welfare applicants moved a step closer to reality Tuesday when the bills author accepted legislative changes to ensure that children would continue to receive benefits if a parent is caught using drugs.
In the original version of the bill by Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, children could permanently lose benefits based on a third failed drug test by a parent.
But Nelson agreed to several changes designed to ensure that children would continue to receive benefits while their drug-using parents are directed into rehabilitation programs, prompting the Health and Human Services Committee to vote 9-0 to approve Senate Bill 11.
My intent is absolutely not to hurt the children, Nelson said. But I believe that if Mama is a serious drug abuser, that money is not going to helping the children. That money is going to buy drugs.
More at http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/bill-to-drug-test-welfare-applicants-delayed/nW4m6/ .
putitinD
(1,551 posts)users
onestepforward
(3,691 posts)Oh course Perry wants to copy Florida's failed policy. I'd expect nothing less from him.
Idiot.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)But, that is very very low. I am not for sure about the numbers for the working population that doesn't get assistance. But, I do know this. Human Resources at a place I used to work told me (she wasn't supposed to) that 1 in 4 people that applied there failed the drug test.