House Bill 503

Statement

House Bill 503 of the 2008 session would provide tax payer funded college scholarships for high school students that agree to remain drug and alcohol free. These high school students would have submit to random drug tests during the last 2 years of their time in high school. However, there is no tracking of whether or not the students receiving the scholarships remain drug and alcohol free during their time in college. Bills similar to this have been proposed in earlier sessions and have always failed.

I voted against this bill as I don't think it is a legitimate use of tax payer's money to bribe students to do what they should do anyway. Fortunately, the bill never got a hearing in the Senate and consequently died.