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SB 615 - This act requires the Department of Social Services to develop a program to screen and test each work-eligible applicant or work-eligible recipient of temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) benefits when a case worker believes, based on reasonable cause from the screening, that such person engages in illegal use of controlled substances. Any applicant or recipient who is found to have tested positive for the use of a controlled substance after an administrative hearing shall be declared ineligible for temporary assistance for needy families benefits for a period of one year from the date of the administrative hearing decision. The department shall refer an applicant or recipient who tested positive for the use of a controlled substance under this act to an appropriate substance abuse treatment program approved by the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse within the Department of Mental Health. Other members of a household which includes a person who has been declared ineligible for TANF benefits shall, if otherwise eligible, continue to receive TANF benefits as protective or vendor payments to a third-party payee for the benefit of the members of the household. The department shall promulgate rules to develop the screening and testing provisions of this section. This act is similar to SB 73 (2009), SB 86 (2009), SB 183 (2009) and SB 1259 (2008). ADRIANE CROUSE
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