|
Newsbrief:
Welfare
Bill
Amended
to
Cut
Funding
to
States
That
Fail
to
Drug
Test
Welfare
Recipients,
But
None
Currently
Do
3/18/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/379/welfarebill.shtml
A bill that would extend
welfare reform legislation supported by President Clinton and enacted by
Congress in 1996 has been amended to include language that cuts federal
welfare funding to any state that does not require drug tests for those
applying for or receiving welfare benefits and are suspected of drug use.
Only one state, Michigan,
attempted to enact drug testing of welfare recipients, but that effort
was thrown
out by a federal appeals court in 2003. That ruling, which also
applies to Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee, held that any such drug testing
programs were an unconstitutional violation of Fourth Amendment protections
against unreasonable search and seizure.
The federal welfare reauthorization
bill, the Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act (HR 240)
was amended and approved by the Ways and Means Committee's Human Resources
Subcommittee on Tuesday. It could be considered by the full Ways
and Means Committee as early as April.
The amendment will not sit
well with representatives who stand to see their states lose funding, said
Bill Piper, director of national affairs for the Drug
Policy Alliance. "We expect to see a rebellion by members of
Congress from states that would lose federal funding under this law.
These states won't just be caught between a rock and a hard place, they'll
be crushed under the rock."
-- END --
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Issue #379
-- 3/18/05
Editorial:
How
to
Launch
a
Nationwide
Drug
Menace
|
Alaska
Measure
to
Recriminalize
Marijuana
Headed
for
Hearings
Next
Week
|
The
UN
Vienna
Meeting:
Glass
Half
Empty
or
Glass
Half
Full?
|
Marijuana
Regulation
Efforts
Moving
Forward
in
Nevada
and
Vermont
|
Marijuana
Law
Enforcement
Costs
More
than
$7
Billion
a
Year
--
and
Doesn't
Work,
Says
New
Report
|
Coasters
to
Stop
the
Drug
War
|
Events
and
Conferences
Coming
Up
for
Drug
Reformers
--
Come
Out
and
Be
a
Part
of
It
|
Newsbrief:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
|
Newsbrief:
US
Drug
War
Hurts
Women,
Says
New
Report
|
Newsbrief:
Welfare
Bill
Amended
to
Cut
Funding
to
States
That
Fail
to
Drug
Test
Welfare
Recipients,
But
None
Currently
Do
|
Newsbrief:
Police
in
Missouri
Town
Seek
to
Overturn
Marijuana
Reform
Ordinance
|
Newsbrief:
Heroin
Maintenance
Study
Now
Underway
in
Vancouver
|
Newsbrief:
Vancouver
Sun
Says
Legalize
It
|
Newsbrief:
UN
Predicts
Cocaine
Price
Increase,
Cites
Colombia
"Success"
|
Newsbrief:
European
Drug
Think-Tank
Calls
for
Legalizing
Afghan
Opium
Crop
--
Afghan
Government
Reaction
Mixed
|
Newsbrief:
Crackdown
in
Sao
Paulo's
"Crackland"
Stirs
Criticism
|
Media
Scan:
Tony
Papa
on
Artists
Against
the
Drug
War
for
Alternet,
Slate
on
the
WTO
and
Marijuana
Laws,
Vancouver
Sun
on
Marijuana
Legalization,
UK
Overdosing
on
Opiates
Article
|
This
Week
in
History
|
MAPS
Benefit
Auction
|
The
Reformer's
Calendar
|
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