Title 21 — Food and Drugs
Part D · Chapter 13 — Drug Abuse Prevention and Control
§ 862b. Sanctioning for testing positive for controlled substances
Statutory text
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, States shall not be prohibited by the Federal Government from testing welfare recipients for use of controlled substances nor from sanctioning welfare recipients who test positive for use of controlled substances.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
Pub. L. 104–193 title IX § 902 · 110 Stat. 2105
Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 862b
(Pub. L. 104–193, title IX, § 902, Aug. 22, 1996, 110 Stat. 2347.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 104–193, title IX, § 902, Aug. 22, 1996, 110 Stat. 2347.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 902. SANCTIONING FOR TESTING POSITIVE FOR CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, States shall not be prohibited by the Federal Government from testing welfare recipients for use of controlled substances nor from sanctioning welfare recipients who test positive for use of controlled substances.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, and not as part of the Controlled Substances Act which comprises this subchapter.