Key Votes
HB 7 - Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients - Key Vote
Louisiana Key Votes
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Family
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Legislation - Bill Failed (Senate) (20-12) - June 21, 2011 (Key vote)
Title: Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that requires 20 percent of recipients of cash assistance through the Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program to submit to random drug testing prior to receiving benefits.
Highlights:
-Establishes a mandatory drug testing program for 20 percent of adult recipients of cash assistance through the Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program (Sec. 1).
-Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to adult recipients randomly for drug testing (Sec. 1).
-Requires recipients initially found to have been using an illegal substance to complete an education and rehabilitation program, and prohibits the Department of Children and Family Services from suspending a recipient's participation in the cash assistance program during the time the recipient is enrolled in the education and rehabilitation program (Sec. 1).
-Authorizes the Department of Children and Family Services to suspend a recipient's participation in the cash assistance program if the recipient is subsequently found to have been using an illegal substance after completing the education and rehabilitation program (Sec. 1).
-Requires all recipients of cash assistance to consent in writing to random drug testing as a condition of receiving cash assistance, and prohibits eligible individuals from receiving cash assistance without signing a written consent form (Sec. 1).
-Specifies that if program funds are sufficient to test more than 20 percent of recipients, the program must test additional recipients up to a percentage in proportion with the amount of funding available (Sec. 1).
-Requires the program to deposit $20,000 into the general fund of the State of Louisiana to offset state deficits prior to testing more than 20 percent of adult recipients (Sec. 1).
-This act is effective January 1, 2012 (Sec. 2).
Note:
NOTE: THIS LEGISLATION NEEDED A TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY VOTE TO PASS
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (67-26) - May 17, 2011 (Key vote)
Title: Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that requires 20 percent of recipients of cash assistance through the Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program to submit to random drug testing prior to receiving benefits.
Highlights:
-Establishes a mandatory drug testing program for 20 percent of adult recipients of cash assistance through the Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program (Sec. 1).
-Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to adult recipients randomly for drug testing (Sec. 1).
-Requires recipients initially found to have been using an illegal substance to complete an education and rehabilitation program, and prohibits the Department of Children and Family Services from suspending a recipient's participation in the cash assistance program during the time the recipient is enrolled in the education and rehabilitation program (Sec. 1).
-Authorizes the Department of Children and Family Services to suspend a recipient's participation in the cash assistance program if the recipient is subsequently found to have been using an illegal substance after completing the education and rehabilitation program (Sec. 1).
-Requires all recipients of cash assistance to consent in writing to random drug testing as a condition of receiving cash assistance, and prohibits eligible individuals from receiving cash assistance without signing a written consent form (Sec. 1).
-Specifies that if program funds are sufficient to test more than 20 percent of recipients, the program must test additional recipients up to a percentage in proportion with the amount of funding available (Sec. 1).
-Requires the program to deposit $20,000 into the general fund of the State of Louisiana to offset state deficits prior to testing more than 20 percent of adult recipients (Sec. 1).
-This act is effective January 1, 2012 (Sec. 2).
Legislation - Introduced (House) - March 2, 2011
Title: Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients
Sponsors
- John F. LaBruzzo Jr. (LA - R) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Bobby G. Badon (LA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Timothy G. 'Tim' Burns (LA - R)
- Henry L. Burns (LA - R)
- Simone B. Champagne (LA - R)
- Billy R. Chandler (LA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Jean M. Doerge (LA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Gordon E. Dove Sr. (LA - R)
- Noble E. Ellington (LA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Jerry J. 'Truck' Gisclair (LA - D)
- Hunter V. Greene (LA - R)
- John E. 'Johnny' Guinn (LA - R)
- Rickey Hardy (LA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Joe Harrison (LA - R)
- Lowell C. 'Chris' Hazel (LA - R)
- J. Cameron Henry Jr. (LA - R)
- Dorothy Sue Hill (LA - D)
- Frank A. Howard (LA - R)
- Kay Kellogg Katz (LA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Charles E. 'Chuck' Kleckley (LA - R)
- Anthony V. 'Tony' Ligi Jr. (LA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Thomas H. 'Tom' McVea (LA - R) (Out Of Office)
- James 'Jim' Morris (LA - R)
- J. Kevin Pearson (LA - R)
- J. Rogers Pope (LA - R)
- Clifton R. 'Clif' Richardson (LA - R) (Out Of Office)
- John M. Schroder Sr. (LA - R)
- Alan Seabaugh (LA - R)
- Scott Simon (LA - R)
- Jane H. Smith (LA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Kirk Talbot (LA - R)
- Ricky James Templet (LA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Major Thibaut Jr. (LA - D)
- Ernest Durham Wooton (LA - I) (Out Of Office)
