GA drug testing bill could get interesting [View all]

[TalkingDog]

http://onlineathens.com/opinion/2012-01-08/editorial-drug-testing-bill-could-get-interesting

If it gets a serious hearing in the state legislative session that begins today, a bill filed by a Democratic state legislator in the Republican-dominated Georgia General Assembly could have some interesting implications for the state’s open records laws.

Clearly a political response to legislative proposals filed in both the state House and state Senate that would subject applicants for public assistance to drug testing, a bill filed by Atlanta Democrat Scott Holcomb would subject legislators to drug testing.

Holcomb’s bill should, then, get a serious hearing, insofar as it would show that lawmakers — who, like welfare recipients, are the recipients of taxpayers’ dollars — are willing to subject themselves to the same conditions under which they’d disburse taxpayers’ dollars to other citizens of this state.