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SB 74 - This act requires the Department of Social Services to develop a program to screen each work-eligible applicant or recipient of temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) benefits and then to test such applicant or recipient when the department has reasonable suspicion to believe, based on 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 TANF benefits for a period of one year from the date of the administrative hearing decision. 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. This act is substantially similar to HB 1377 (2010). ADRIANE CROUSE
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