Drug Testing For Missouri Welfare Recipients

On 30th January 2011, the Congress of Missouri passed the bill and sent it to the Senate. This requires a drug test for people receiving temporary assistance from a domestic household (TANF) for temporary aid. Food stamps, medical insurance, public housing funds are not affected by this bill (Keller - House). According to Columbia's Tribune reporter Rudikerer, the bill is very similar to the law of Arizona State, which is the only province to test welfare beneficiaries. Missouri State and Arizona State identify applicants to test using questionnaires and interviews.

Based on the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, many states are proposing drug tests for welfare applicants and beneficiaries, but most proposals are stagnant at the state legislature. However, in 2011, three states, Arizona, Florida, and Missouri, passed a law requiring at least some drug tests for TANF (temporary aid for poor families) applicants or recipients , The welfare drug test was started. Take off. At the end of 2014, 14 states have approved drug-related drug tests, and the other two provinces have enacted similar laws in 2015. Most of these laws are based on suspicious drug tests. In other words, institutions in different countries must rationally suspect that individuals are using medicine to examine this person. Judgment that this is the way tried before illegal act)

Following the Federal Welfare Reform Act of 1996, discussions on grants for the benefit of drug testing began. Although this bill does not require the state to conduct a drug test of welfare beneficiaries as a requirement for receiving aid, after the new law is enacted, the victims who were permitted to take drug tests Provide temporary aid (TANF) and other blocks to the state. I will grant it. Many states are considering or enacting the law on this issue. These regulations were reviewed in 20 states in 2009 and 12 in 2010, but few have passed through due to the legal dilemma of conducting random drug testing. In the 2003 Michigan State Court of Appeals court case, it was unconstitutional to conduct drug tests on each welfare user without evidence of drug abuse. This is not the only court challenge to this type of law - In December 2013, the Federal Florida Judge announced that the state drug test law is unconstitutional