House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients Act
Official title: To require certain welfare programs to deny benefits to persons who fail a drug test, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. David Rouzer R-NCWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 13, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 20, 2025 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 372.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. ROUZER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 6, January 13, 2025, Page H112):Article I, Section VIIISource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 13, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 23 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 372, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/372
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- March 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of March 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. David Rouzer.
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 14, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.