The Chair of the House Judiciary Committee says a bill that would randomly drug test those on state assistance won't make it on the House floor without some discussion.
"I can assure you that if this is an issue that's right for committee debate there will be a debate all right," says Kanawha County Delegate Carrie Webster (D).
The bill introduced by Berkeley County Delegate Craig Blair (R) is currently in the hands of the Judiciary and is garnering a substantial public following in the state. However, Delegate Webster is worried that a lot of those people are missing one thing when considering the bill.
"I think what has been absent from this is the human element," Webster explains. "(It) suggests if you are poor and on aid of some sort that you are a drug addict."
Delegate Blair's bill will pick up an endorsement Thursday afternoon. The Farm Bureau will formally support the bill and include it in its 2009 policies handbook.
Even so, Delegate Webster expects more groups to come out against the bill in the coming weeks including religious groups and organized labor.
