Welfare drug screening stripped from Indiana bill

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Source: AP

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A bill to require drug testing for some Indiana welfare recipients with past drug offenses no longer restricts what can be bought with government food assistance.

The Senate health committee approved the stripped-down bill 6-3 on Wednesday.

The House earlier approved a version of the bill that would've subjected anyone applying for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families to be screened for likelihood of addiction. It also would have limited food stamp recipients to buying only foods deemed "nutritional."

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[Fred Sanders]

1. The cons, encouraged by ALEC, are adopting the anti-abortion tactics to the food stamps, by

regulating the process to death and creating anti-constitutional laws to impede anyone, vilifying anyone who would question what their interpretation of The Bible commands them to believe.
The GOP is being taken over by a cult.

[Jesus Malverde]

2. This is one of those reagan era memes ...part of zero tolerance.

Good to see it finally going out of fashion.

Thanks Andrew

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. The title is misleading.

The amended bill still contains a drug testing requirement for some TANF recipients. Anyone who has a misdemeanor drug conviction in the past 10 years is still subject to testing. Drug felons already can't get food stamps in Indiana because the state is among the minority that have not opted out of a federal ban on food stamps for people with drug felonies.