Welfare drug screening.

WORKING DRAFT
2008
STATE OF
WYOMING
08LSO-0379

SENATE FILE
NO.
SF0091

Welfare
drug
screening
.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Bebout

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
welfare; providing for
drug
screening
;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.

W.S. 42
‑
2
‑
107 by creating a new subsection (c) is amended to read:

42
‑
2
‑
107.

Payment of assistance; custodian for incompetent recipients; drug
screens
.

(c)

Notwithstanding any other provision of
Wyoming

or

f
ederal
law, the department shall
establish a program to

screen
welfare recipients for
the
use of controlled substances
. The department may withhold payments from
welfare recipients who test positive for
the
use of controlled substances
under the screening process in this subsection
.
The department shall assist a welfare recipient who tests positive under
the screening process in
this
sub
section in obtaining treatment for addiction to controlled substances.

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2008.

(END)

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