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118THCONGRESS
1
STSESSION H. R. 204
To require certain welfare programs to deny benefits to persons who fail
a drug test, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY9, 2023
Mr. R
OUZERintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Agri-
culture, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To require certain welfare programs to deny benefits to
persons who fail a drug test, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Drug Testing for Wel-4
fare Recipients Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. DRUG SCREENING AND TESTING UNDER STATE 1
PROGRAMS FOR TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE 2
FOR NEEDY FAMILIES. 3
(a) P
ROHIBITION.—Section 408(a) of the Social Se-4
curity Act (42 U.S.C. 608(a)) is amended by adding at 5
the end the following: 6
‘‘(13) N
O ASSISTANCE FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO 7
FAIL DRUG SCREENING OR TESTING OR ARE NOT 8
SCREENED OR TESTED FOR DRUG USE .— 9
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—A State to which a 10
grant is made under section 403 shall not use 11
any part of the grant to provide assistance for 12
an individual who has attained 18 years of age, 13
unless, before receipt of the assistance— 14
‘‘(i) the State makes a determination, 15
in a manner the State considers appro-16
priate, of whether the individual has or has 17
not been arrested for a drug-related of-18
fense during the 5-year period immediately 19
preceding the date on which the determina-20
tion is made; 21
‘‘(ii) in the case of an individual who 22
is determined by the State to have been ar-23
rested for a drug-related offense during the 24
5-year period provided in clause (i), the in-25
dividual tests negative for not less than 1 26
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controlled substance, as specified by the 1
State, in such manner and at such times 2
as the State determines to be appropriate; 3
and 4
‘‘(iii) in the case of an individual who 5
is determined by the State not to have 6
been arrested for a drug-related offense 7
during the 5-year period provided in clause 8
(i), the individual— 9
‘‘(I) completes substance abuse 10
screening in such manner and at such 11
times as the State considers appro-12
priate; and 13
‘‘(II)(aa) is determined pursuant 14
to such screening not to have a high 15
risk of abuse of a controlled sub-16
stance; or 17
‘‘(bb) is determined pursuant to 18
such screening to have a high risk of 19
abuse of a controlled substance and 20
tests negative for not less than 1 con-21
trolled substance, as specified by the 22
State, in such manner and at such 23
times as the State determines to be 24
appropriate. 25
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‘‘(B) EFFECT OF FAILING DRUG TEST .—In 1
the case of an individual who tests positive for 2
a controlled substance pursuant to subpara-3
graph (A)(ii) or (A)(iii)(II)(bb), a State shall 4
not provide assistance under the State program 5
funded under this part for the individual for a 6
period beginning on the date on which the State 7
determines that the test result is positive and 8
ending on the latest of— 9
‘‘(i) the date that is 12 months after 10
the date on which the State determines 11
that the test result is positive; 12
‘‘(ii) the date on which the individual 13
successfully completes a treatment pro-14
gram for each controlled substance for 15
which the individual tested positive; or 16
‘‘(iii) the date on which the individual 17
tests negative for each such controlled sub-18
stance, in such manner and at such times 19
as the State determines to be appropriate. 20
‘‘(C) R
ESPONSIBILITY FOR TESTING AND 21
SCREENING.— 22
‘‘(i) M
ANNER AND TIME .—A State 23
may provide for testing and screening pur-24
suant to paragraph (1), and retesting and 25
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rescreening pursuant to paragraph (2), in 1
such manner and at such times as the 2
State agency considers appropriate. 3
‘‘(ii) C
OSTS.—A State may not re-4
quire an individual to pay the cost of test-5
ing or screening conducted pursuant to 6
this paragraph. 7
‘‘(D) N
O EFFECT ON ASSISTANCE FOR 8
OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS .—The amount of as-9
sistance payable for a family member of an in-10
dividual for whom assistance is denied pursuant 11
to this paragraph shall not be affected by the 12
denial. 13
‘‘(E) D
EFINITIONS.—In this paragraph: 14
‘‘(i) C
ONTROLLED SUBSTANCE .—The 15
term ‘controlled substance’ means, with re-16
spect to an individual, any controlled sub-17
stance as defined in section 102 of the 18
Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802) 19
that is not used by such individual pursu-20
ant to a valid prescription or as otherwise 21
authorized by law. 22
‘‘(ii) D
RUG-RELATED OFFENSE .—The 23
term ‘drug-related offense’ means any 24
criminal offense under State or Federal 25
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law relating to the manufacture, sale, dis-1
tribution, use, or possession with intent to 2
manufacture, sell, distribute, or use, of a 3
controlled substance. 4
‘‘(iii) S
UBSTANCE ABUSE SCREEN -5
ING.—The term ‘substance abuse screen-6
ing’ means an interview, questionnaire, or 7
other screening instrument approved by 8
the State, that is designed to be used to 9
determine whether an individual has a high 10
risk of abuse of a controlled substance.’’. 11
(b) P
ENALTY.— 12
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Section 409(a) of such Act 13
(42 U.S.C. 609(a)) is amended by adding at the end 14
the following: 15
‘‘(17) F
AILURE TO CONDITION RECEIPT OF 16
BENEFITS ON PASSING DRUG TESTING OR SCREEN -17
ING.—If the Secretary determines that a State to 18
which a grant is made under section 403 for a fiscal 19
year has substantially failed to comply with section 20
408(a)(13) during the fiscal year, the Secretary 21
shall reduce the grant payable to the State under 22
section 403 for the immediately succeeding fiscal 23
year by an amount equal to 15 percent of the State 24
family assistance grant.’’. 25
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(2) INAPPLICABILITY OF GOOD CAUSE EXCEP -1
TION.—Section 409(b)(2) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 2
609(b)(2)) is amended by striking ‘‘or (13)’’ and in-3
serting ‘‘(13), or (17)’’. 4
(3) I
NAPPLICABILITY OF CORRECTIVE COMPLI -5
ANCE PLAN REQUIREMENT .—Section 409(c)(4) of 6
such Act (42 U.S.C. 609(c)) is amended by striking 7
‘‘or (16)’’ and inserting ‘‘(16), or (17)’’. 8
(c) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 9
this section shall take effect on the first day of the first 10
calendar month that begins after the 240-day period that 11
begins with the date of the enactment of this Act. 12
SEC. 3. DRUG SCREENING AND TESTING UNDER THE SUP-13
PLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PRO-14
GRAM. 15
(a) D
RUGTESTING ANDSCREENINGREQUIRED FOR 16
E
LIGIBILITY.—Section 6 of the Food and Nutrition Act 17
of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2015) is amended by adding at end 18
the following: 19
‘‘(t) E
LIGIBILITYBASED ONREQUIREDDRUGTEST-20
ING ANDSCREENING.— 21
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—An individual who has at-22
tained 18 years of age and who is otherwise eligible 23
to participate in the supplemental nutrition assist-24
ance program as a member of a household shall be 25
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eligible to participate in such program only if before 1
such assistance is provided with respect to such indi-2
vidual— 3
‘‘(A) the State determines, in a manner 4
the State considers appropriate, whether such 5
individual has or has not been arrested for a 6
drug-related offense during the 5-year period 7
ending on the date on which the determination 8
is made; 9
‘‘(B) in the case of an individual who is de-10
termined by the State to have been arrested for 11
a drug-related offense during such 5-year pe-12
riod, such individual tests negative for not less 13
than 1 controlled substance, as specified by the 14
State, in such manner and at such times as the 15
State considers appropriate; and 16
‘‘(C) in the case of an individual who is de-17
termined by the State not to have been arrested 18
for a drug-related offense during such 5-year 19
period, such individual— 20
‘‘(i) completes substance abuse screen-21
ing, in such manner and at such times as 22
the State considers appropriate; and 23
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‘‘(ii)(I) is determined pursuant to 1
such screening not to have a high risk of 2
abuse of a controlled substance; or 3
‘‘(II) is determined pursuant to such 4
screening to have a high risk of abuse of 5
a controlled substance and tests negative 6
for not less than 1 controlled substance, as 7
specified by the State, in such manner and 8
at such times as the State considers appro-9
priate. 10
‘‘(2) E
FFECT OF A POSITIVE DRUG TEST RE -11
SULT.—If an individual tests positive for a con-12
trolled substance pursuant to paragraph (1), such 13
assistance may not be provided with respect to such 14
individual for a period beginning on the date on 15
which the State agency determines that the test re-16
sult is positive and ending on the latest of— 17
‘‘(A) the date that is 1 year after the date 18
on which the State agency determines that the 19
test result is positive; 20
‘‘(B) the date on which such individual 21
successfully completes a treatment program for 22
each controlled substance for which the indi-23
vidual tested positive pursuant to paragraph 24
(1); and 25
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‘‘(C) the date by which the test result for 1
such individual is not positive for each con-2
trolled substance for which the individual tested 3
positive pursuant to paragraph (1). 4
‘‘(3) R
ESPONSIBILITY FOR TESTING AND 5
SCREENING.— 6
‘‘(A) The State agency may provide for 7
testing and screening pursuant to paragraph 8
(1), and retesting and rescreening pursuant to 9
paragraph (2), in such manner and at such 10
times as the State agency considers appro-11
priate. 12
‘‘(B) The State agency may not require an 13
individual or a household to pay the cost of a 14
test or screening conducted pursuant to this 15
subsection. 16
‘‘(4) D
EFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub-17
section: 18
‘‘(A) C
ONTROLLED SUBSTANCE .—The 19
term ‘controlled substance’ means a controlled 20
substance as defined in section 102 of the Con-21
trolled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802) that is 22
not used by the tested individual pursuant to a 23
valid prescription or as otherwise authorized by 24
law. 25
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‘‘(B) DRUG-RELATED OFFENSE .—The 1
term ‘drug-related offense’ means any criminal 2
offense under State or Federal law relating to 3
the manufacture, sale, distribution, use, or pos-4
session with intent to manufacture, sell, dis-5
tribute, or use, of a controlled substance. 6
‘‘(C) S
UBSTANCE ABUSE SCREENING .— 7
The term ‘substance abuse screening’ means an 8
interview, questionnaire, or other screening in-9
strument approved by the State, that is de-10
signed to be used to determine whether an indi-11
vidual has a high risk of abuse of a controlled 12
substance.’’. 13
(b) R
EDUCTION OFREIMBURSEMENT FOR ADMINIS-14
TRATIVECOSTS.—Section 16 of the Food and Nutrition 15
Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2025) is amended— 16
(1) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘subsection 17
(k)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsections (k) and (l)’’, and 18
(2) by adding at end the following: 19
‘‘(l) F
AILURETOENFORCEDRUGTESTING AND 20
S
CREENINGREQUIREMENTS.—If the Secretary deter-21
mines that the State agency failed substantially to enforce 22
the eligibility requirement established in section 6(t) in a 23
fiscal year, the Secretary shall reduce by 15 percent the 24
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amount otherwise payable under subsection (a) to such 1
State agency for the immediately succeeding fiscal year.’’. 2
(c) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 3
this section shall take effect 240 days after the date of 4
the enactment of this Act. 5
SEC. 4. DRUG SCREENING AND TESTING UNDER PUBLIC 6
HOUSING AND SECTION 8 RENTAL ASSIST-7
ANCE PROGRAMS. 8
(a) P
ROHIBITION.—Section 214 of the Housing and 9
Community Development Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 1436a) 10
is amended by adding at the end the following: 11
‘‘(j) P
ROHIBITION OFHOUSINGASSISTANCE FORIN-12
DIVIDUALSWHOFAILDRUGSCREENING ORTESTING OR 13
A
RENOTSCREENED ORTESTED.— 14
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 15
provision of law, the applicable administrative entity 16
may not make covered housing assistance available 17
for the benefit of any individual who has attained 18 18
years of age, unless, before such assistance is pro-19
vided with respect to such individual— 20
‘‘(A) the applicable administrative entity 21
makes a determination, in a manner the entity 22
considers appropriate, of whether the individual 23
has or has not been arrested for a drug-related 24
offense during the 5-year period immediately 25
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preceding the date on which the determination 1
is made; 2
‘‘(B) in the case of an individual who is de-3
termined by the applicable administrative entity 4
to have been arrested for a drug-related offense 5
during the 5-year period provided in subpara-6
graph (A), the individual tests negative for each 7
controlled substance that the entity has deter-8
mined to be appropriate for testing; and 9
‘‘(C) in the case of an individual who is de-10
termined by the applicable administrative entity 11
not to have been arrested for a drug-related of-12
fense during the 5-year period provided in 13
clause (i), the individual— 14
‘‘(i) completes substance abuse screen-15
ing in such manner and at such times as 16
the entity considers appropriate; and 17
‘‘(ii)(I) is determined pursuant to 18
such screening not to have a high risk of 19
abuse of a controlled substance; or 20
‘‘(II) is determined pursuant to such 21
screening to have a high risk of abuse of 22
a controlled substance and tests negative 23
for each controlled substance that the enti-24
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ty has determined to be appropriate for 1
testing. 2
The applicable administrative entity shall determine 3
that not less than 1 controlled substance, as speci-4
fied by the entity, is appropriate for testing for pur-5
poses of this paragraph. 6
‘‘(2) E
FFECT OF FAILING DRUG TEST .—If an 7
individual tests positive for a controlled substance 8
pursuant to paragraph (1)(B) or (1)(C)(ii)(II), cov-9
ered housing assistance may not be provided with re-10
spect to such individual for the period beginning on 11
the date on which the applicable administrative enti-12
ty determines that the test result is positive and 13
ending on the latest of— 14
‘‘(A) the date that is 12 months after the 15
date on which the applicable administrative en-16
tity determines that the test result is positive; 17
‘‘(B) the date on which the individual suc-18
cessfully completes a treatment program for 19
each controlled substance for which the indi-20
vidual tested positive; and 21
‘‘(C) the date on which the individual tests 22
negative for each such controlled substance, in 23
such manner and at such times as the applica-24
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ble administrative entity determines to be ap-1
propriate. 2
‘‘(3) R
ESPONSIBILITY FOR TESTING AND 3
SCREENING.— 4
‘‘(A) M
ANNER AND TIME .—An applicable 5
administrative entity may provide for testing 6
and screening pursuant to paragraph (1), and 7
retesting and rescreening pursuant to para-8
graph (2), in such manner and at such times as 9
the entity determines to be appropriate. 10
‘‘(B) C
OSTS.—An applicable administrative 11
entity may not require an individual or family 12
to pay the cost of a test or screening conducted 13
pursuant to this subsection. 14
‘‘(4) P
RORATION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE .— 15
If an individual for whose benefit covered housing 16
assistance is prohibited pursuant to this subsection 17
is a member of family that includes at least one 18
other member whose eligibility under this subsection 19
for such assistance has been affirmatively estab-20
lished pursuant to testing under this subsection, cov-21
ered housing assistance made available to such fam-22
ily shall be prorated, based on the number of indi-23
viduals in the family for whom eligibility under this 24
subsection for such assistance has been affirmatively 25
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established pursuant to testing under this subsection 1
as compared with the total number of individuals 2
who are members of the family. 3
‘‘(5) F
AILURE TO ENFORCE DRUG TESTING RE -4
QUIREMENT.—If the Secretary of Housing and 5
Urban Development determines that a public hous-6
ing agency has substantially failed to comply with 7
this subsection during a fiscal year, the Secretary 8
shall reduce by 15 percent the amount otherwise 9
provided to the agency, for the immediately suc-10
ceeding fiscal year, under each of the following pro-11
grams: 12
‘‘(A) The public housing Capital Fund pro-13
gram under section 9(d) of the United States 14
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(d)). 15
‘‘(B) The public housing Operating Fund 16
program under section 9(e) of the United 17
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 18
1437g(e)). 19
‘‘(C) All programs for rental housing as-20
sistance under section 8 of the United States 21
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f). 22
‘‘(6) U
SE OF HOUSING ASSISTANCE AMOUNTS 23
FOR TESTING.—Notwithstanding any other provision 24
of law, amounts made available under the following 25
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provisions of law may be used for costs of testing in-1
dividuals for controlled substances for purposes of 2
compliance with this section, as follows: 3
‘‘(A) Amounts made available under the 4
public housing Operating Fund program under 5
section 9(e) of the United States Housing Act 6
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(e)) may be used for 7
such testing for residents of, and applicants for 8
residency in, public housing. 9
‘‘(B) Amounts made available to a public 10
housing agency for administrative fees under 11
section 8(q) of the United States Housing Act 12
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(q)) may be used for 13
such testing for individuals on behalf of whom 14
rental assistance under such section is provided 15
by the agency and applicants for such assist-16
ance. 17
‘‘(C) Amounts made available for project- 18
based rental assistance under section 8 of the 19
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 20
1437f) may be used for such testing for resi-21
dents of, and applicants for residency in, dwell-22
ing units in housing projects for which such as-23
sistance is provided. 24
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‘‘(7) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub-1
section, the following definitions shall apply: 2
‘‘(A) A
PPLICABLE ADMINISTRATIVE ENTI -3
TY.—The term ‘applicable administrative entity’ 4
means— 5
‘‘(i) a public housing agency, with re-6
spect to covered housing assistance admin-7
istered by such agency; and 8
‘‘(ii) the Secretary, with respect to 9
project-based rental assistance under sec-10
tion 8 of the United States Housing Act of 11
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f). 12
‘‘(B) C
ONTROLLED SUBSTANCE .—The 13
term ‘controlled substance’ means, with respect 14
to an individual, a controlled substance as de-15
fined in section 102 of the Controlled Sub-16
stances Act (21 U.S.C. 802) that is not used by 17
such individual pursuant to a valid prescription 18
or as otherwise authorized by law. 19
‘‘(C) C
OVERED HOUSING ASSISTANCE .— 20
The term ‘covered housing assistance’ means fi-21
nancial assistance made available pursuant to 22
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 23
U.S.C. 1437 et seq.). 24
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‘‘(D) DRUG-RELATED OFFENSE .—The 1
term ‘drug-related offense’ means any criminal 2
offense under State or Federal law relating to 3
the manufacture, sale, distribution, use, or pos-4
session with intent to manufacture, sell, dis-5
tribute, or use, of a controlled substance. 6
‘‘(E) S
UBSTANCE ABUSE SCREENING .— 7
The term ‘substance abuse screening’ means an 8
interview, questionnaire, or other screening in-9
strument approved by the applicable adminis-10
trative entity that is designed to be used to de-11
termine whether an individual has a high risk 12
of abuse of a controlled substance. 13
‘‘(8) O
THER PROVISIONS OF LAW .—This sub-14
section may not be construed to affect the applica-15
bility of any provision of section 576 or 577 of the 16
Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 17
1998 (42 U.S.C. 13661, 13662) or of section 6(l), 18
8(o)(7), or 16(f) of the United States Housing Act 19
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437n(f)), except that the Sec-20
retary of Housing and Urban Development shall en-21
sure that any standards or lease provisions estab-22
lished pursuant to such sections are consistent with 23
this subsection.’’. 24
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(b) EFFECTIVEDATE.—The amendment made by 1
this section shall take effect on the first day of the first 2
calendar month that begins after the expiration of the 3
240-day period beginning on the date of the enactment 4
of this Act. 5
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