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According to newsleader.com (Jefferson City MO) a, state Senate committee has passed a bill that would require cash welfare recipients in Missouri to pass a drug test in order to receive government aid.
The Senate Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee passed the bill 5-3 this morning, according to committee chair Sen. Norma Champion, R-Springfield.
Democratic Sens. Joseph Keaveny of St. Louis and Jolie Justus and Yvonne Wilson Kanas City voted "no," Champion said.
Five Republican senators had each introduced similar bills that got rolled into one bill, Senate Bill 607, Champion said.
Sen. Bill Stouffer, a Saline County Republican, will carry the legislation. Stouffer is running for Congress this year in Missouri's 4th District.
Sens. Jack Goodman of Mount Vernon and Gary Nodler of Joplin also sponsored the legislation. Goodman and Nodler are in a seven-man Republican congressional primary for the 7th District seat being vacated by Rep. Roy Blunt.