New Law Would Require Lawmakers To Be Drug Tested
HB-677 was pre-filed by Rep. Scott Holcomb (D-Atlanta) last month. If passed, State lawmakers would be subject to drug testing and if they failed those tests, they would be subject to removal. Click through for more on this bill and some other things happening at the Capitol.
Timothy Darnell from Barrow Patch has the full story on HB-677. The Legislative session began earlier this week and this bill was written in response to another bill, HB-668, which would require adults in families applying for state aid to face mandatory drug testing as a precondition. Very controversial.
For great coverage of the Georgia General Assembly, be sure to check the AJC’s political section.
There’s a bill being considered that would make it illegal to use cash to buy copper.
Gov Deal has presented a budget that increases spending and would include purchasing a building at Ft. McPherson with the intent of housing some State agencies. Creative Loafing indicated that some of that money would be great for a new stadium for the Atlanta Falcons.
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Lynn
January 13, 2012 12:58 pm
What’s the surprise? The issue of represented officials being required to provide urine samples has been brought up before. Don’t these people realize that peeing in a cup is a method of degradation, not of quality of work? I admire those legislators who try to strike this point home by demanding that their colleagues be faced with the same humiliation.
Stephanie Phelan
January 12, 2012 3:21 pm
FANTASTIC if I have to be drug tested to get a job so should they. Just because they work in the government they should NOT be exempt from anything that the people who don’t work in the government. OH and they should be hair tested not just the pee test. No exceptions there aren’t any for us working people.