Mississippi Senate Bill 2109 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Failed on February 4 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-02-04 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act Relating To Drug Screening Of Potential And Existing Beneficiaries Of Temporary Assistance For Needy Families; To Require The Department Of Human Services To Perform A Drug Test On An Applicant For Temporary Assistance For Needy Families Benefits; To Require Such Individual To Bear The Cost Of The Drug Test; To Require The Department To Provide, And The Applicant To Acknowledge Receipt Of, Notice Of The Drug-screening Policy; To Require The Department To Increase The Amount Of The Initial Tanf Benefit By The Amount Paid By The Individual For The Drug Testing; To Provide Procedures For Testing And Retesting; To Require The Department To Provide Information Concerning Local Substance Abuse Treatment Programs To An Individual Who Tests Positive; To Provide Conditions For An Individual To Reapply For Temporary Assistance For Needy Families Benefits; To Provide That, If A Parent Is Ineligible As A Result Of Failing A Drug Test, The Eligibility Of The Children Is Not Affected; To Provide Conditions For Designating Another Protective Payee; To Provide Rulemaking Authority To The Department; And To Amend Section 43-17-1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, In Conformanity; And For Related Purposes.

TANF assistance benefits; require applicants to submit to drug testing to qualify.

Sen. Joey Fillingane [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-04	Senate	Died In Committee
2014-01-10	Senate	Referred To Public Health and Welfare

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2014/pdf/history/SB/SB2109.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2014/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2109IN.htm