Key Votes
HB 73 - Drug Testing Of Welfare Recipients - Key Vote
Missouri Key Votes
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Stages
- July 12, 2011 Executive Signed
- May 10, 2011 House Concurrence Vote Passed
- April 28, 2011 Senate Bill Passed
- Jan. 31, 2011 House Bill Passed
- Jan. 5, 2011 Introduced
Family
Issues
Note
NOTE: THIS IS A SUBSTITUTE BILL, MEANING THE LANGUAGE OF THE ORIGINAL BILL HAS BEEN REPLACED. THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE SUBSTITUTE BILL TEXT DIFFERS FROM THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF THE TEXT CAN VARY GREATLY.
Stage Details
Legislation - Signed (Executive) - July 12, 2011
Title: Drug Testing Of Welfare Recipients
Legislation - Concurrence Vote Passed (House) (113-34) - May 10, 2011 (Key vote)
Title: Drug Testing Of Welfare Recipients
Vote to concur with Senate amendments and pass a bill that requires drug tests for recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits.
- Requires the Department of Social Services to develop a program to screen each applicant or recipient of TANF benefits, and to test each applicant or recipient who the department has "reasonable cause" to believe, based upon the screening, engages in prohibited use of controlled substances (Sec. A).
- Prohibits any applicant or recipient who tests positive for the use of a controlled substance or refuses to submit to a test from receiving benefits for a period of 3 years, unless the applicant or recipient enters and completes a substance abuse treatment program and does not test positive for illegal use in the 6 month period after entering the program (Sec. A).
- Specifies that an applicant or recipient that has tested positive and has entered a treatment program will continue to receive benefits while they are in the program (Sec. A).
- Authorizes the Department of Social Services to test at random or set intervals applicants or recipients that are in a substance abuse treatment program in order to receive benefits (Sec. A).
- Prohibits any applicant or recipient that is found to have tested positive for the use of illegal drugs a second time from receiving benefits for a period of 3 years (Sec. A).
- Requires case workers of applicants or recipients to report suspected child abuse as a result of drug abuse in instances where the applicant or recipient has tested positive or refuses to be tested for the illegal use of a controlled substance (Sec. A).
- Authorizes members of a household that includes an applicant or recipient that has been declared ineligible for TANF benefits to continue to receive benefits as protective or vendor payments to a third party payee (Sec. A).
- Requires all electronic benefits cards distributed to recipients of TANF benefits to include a photograph of the recipient or protective payee authorized to use the card (Sec. A).
NOTE: THIS IS A SUBSTITUTE BILL, MEANING THE LANGUAGE OF THE ORIGINAL BILL HAS BEEN REPLACED. THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE SUBSTITUTE BILL TEXT DIFFERS FROM THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF THE TEXT CAN VARY GREATLY.
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (29-5) - April 28, 2011 (Key vote)
Title: Drug Testing Of Welfare Recipients
Vote to pass a bill that requires drug tests for recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits.
- Requires the Department of Social Services to develop a program to screen each applicant or recipient of TANF benefits, and to test each applicant or recipient who the department has "reasonable cause" to believe, based upon the screening, engages in prohibited use of controlled substances (Sec. A).
- Prohibits any applicant or recipient who tests positive for the use of a controlled substance or refuses to submit to a test from receiving benefits for a period of 3 years, unless the applicant or recipient enters and completes a substance abuse treatment program and does not test positive for illegal use in the 6 month period after entering the program (Sec. A).
- Specifies that an applicant or recipient that has tested positive and has entered a treatment program will continue to receive benefits while they are in the program (Sec. A).
- Authorizes the Department of Social Services to test at random or set intervals applicants or recipients that are in a substance abuse treatment program in order to receive benefits (Sec. A).
- Prohibits any applicant or recipient that is found to have tested positive for the use of illegal drugs a second time from receiving benefits for a period of 3 years (Sec. A).
- Requires case workers of applicants or recipients to report suspected child abuse as a result of drug abuse in instances where the applicant or recipient has tested positive or refuses to be tested for the illegal use of a controlled substance (Sec. A).
- Authorizes members of a household that includes an applicant or recipient that has been declared ineligible for TANF benefits to continue to receive benefits as protective or vendor payments to a third party payee (Sec. A).
- Requires all electronic benefits cards distributed to recipients of TANF benefits to include a photograph of the recipient or protective payee authorized to use the card (Sec. A).
NOTE: THIS IS A SUBSTITUTE BILL, MEANING THE LANGUAGE OF THE ORIGINAL BILL HAS BEEN REPLACED. THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE SUBSTITUTE BILL TEXT DIFFERS FROM THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF THE TEXT CAN VARY GREATLY.
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (116-27) - Jan. 31, 2011
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Jan. 5, 2011
Title: Drug Testing Of Welfare Recipients
Sponsors
- Ellen Brandom (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Sue Allen (MO - R)
- Kurt M. Bahr (MO - R)
- TJ Berry (MO - R)
- Rick Brattin (MO - R)
- Wanda Brown (MO - R)
- Cloria 'Clo' Brown (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Eric W. Burlison (MO - R)
- Mike Cierpiot (MO - R)
- Kathie Conway (MO - R)
- Steve Cookson (MO - R)
- Stanley Cox (MO - R)
- Sandy Crawford (MO - R)
- Gary Cross (MO - R)
- Charlie Davis (MO - R)
- David 'Dave' Day (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Charles W. 'Charlie' Denison (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Scott D. Dieckhaus (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- John J. Diehl Jr. (MO - R)
- Tony Dugger (MO - R)
- Sue Entlicher (MO - R)
- Barney Fisher (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Paul Fitzwater (MO - R)
- Tom Flanigan (MO - R)
- Lyndall Fraker (MO - R)
- Ward Franz (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Doug Funderburk (MO - R)
- Chuck Gatschenberger (MO - R)
- Casey Guernsey (MO - R)
- Marsha Haefner (MO - R)
- Kent Hampton (MO - R)
- Galen W. Higdon (MO - R)
- Dave Hinson (MO - R)
- Denny L. Hoskins (MO - R)
- Lincoln Hough (MO - R)
- Jay Houghton (MO - R)
- Caleb Jones (MO - R)
- Timothy W. Jones (MO - R)
- Shelley White Keeney (MO - R)
- Mike Kelley (MO - R)
- Glen Klippenstein (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Andrew Koenig (MO - R)
- Bart Korman (MO - R)
- Mike Lair (MO - R)
- Bill Lant (MO - R)
- Jeanie Lauer (MO - R)
- Melissa Leach (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Donna Lichtenegger (MO - R)
- Tom L. Loehner (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Thomas Long (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- John C. McCaherty (MO - R)
- Mike McGhee (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Chris Molendorp (MO - R)
- Bob 'Bob' Nance (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Myron Neth (MO - R)
- Jerry Nolte (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Mark A. Parkinson (MO - R)
- Donald Phillips (MO - R)
- Darrell Pollock (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Craig Redmon (MO - R)
- Bill Reiboldt (MO - R)
- Todd Richardson (MO - R)
- Jeanie Riddle (MO - R)
- Lyle Rowland (MO - R)
- Don Ruzicka (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- David Sater (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Rodney Schad (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Dave Schatz (MO - R)
- Vicki Schneider (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Shane Schoeller (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Lindell F. Shumake (MO - R)
- Jason T. Smith (MO - R)
- Sheila Solon (MO - R)
- Mike Thomson (MO - R)
- Steven Tilley (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Noel Torpey (MO - R)
- Wayne Wallingford (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Don Wells (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- William 'Bill' White (MO - R)
- Paul Joseph Wieland (MO - R)
- Billy Pat Wright (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Zachary Wyatt (MO - R) (Out Of Office)
- Anne Zerr (MO - R)
