Drug Testing Unemployed

Bill ID:2011 House Bill 126
Introduced:Monday, November 8, 2010
Sponsors: ---
Status:Introduced
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House Bill 126, which Rep. Ken Legler also filed last session, would require drug testing for applicants and recipients of unemployment compensation benefits.

 

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Support Drug Testing Unemployed
 
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Comments

Supporting Discussion

dmaguilar62

The war on drugs is chronic, and people use drugs as a vice, more often than anything else. As long as there is a huge market for drugs, there will be suppliers. POINT: Not just the unemployed should be subject to drug testing, but teachers and ALL staff IN schools should be randomly drug tested. I have been in education for 9 years, and have never understood WHY the administrators and teachers are not subject to mandatory drug testing!

Dissenting Discussion

dvdabn
The whole Texas Government is full of bonehead legislators, not leaving out Governor Goodhair. We have an antiquated tax system biased against landowners (property tax) and people with buying power (sales tax). The tax system needs to be revamped to make it more equitable for all.
natsirt
Drug Testing is dumb to start with, I smoke pot, I ONLY smoke pot, I don't drink, snort coke, or any other drug out there, I dint even like taking Tylenol. SO why is it that I am being punished. I served my country for 4 years in the Marine Corp now I can't apply for unemployment, I pay into it? What about the money that goes along with this, sense everyone that applies gets tested the cost of the test would (one way or another) be taken out of the unemployment check. NO business takes the cost onto its self, it is always passed onto the consumer. IKEA may be having a 20% off sale but only because they built up the money to pay for that by raising prices before the sail. Same concept with drug testing the Unemployed. I didn't think the government could find a way to tax the unemployed more till now.

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