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Oklahoma Senator Introduces TANF Drug Testing Bill

At the risk of sounding too cliché... it's about damn time!

If you're like the majority of employees both in Oklahoma and throughout the United States, your employer likely subjects you to drug testing as a condition of your employment.  As it stands right now, if you are on welfare you are not required to submit to a drug test.  While I am all for freedom of choice as to whether someone wants to shoot their veins or snort coke, I'd much rather not be paying for it out of my taxes.

Senator Anthony Sykes has introduced a bill in the Oklahoma Senate to require all applicants and recipients of assistance through the state's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program to submit to regular drug testing by the Department of Human Services.  The bill is introduced as an amendment to 56 OS 2001, Section 230.52, adding the following paragraph:

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