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Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Jean Schmidt, (R-OH-02) along with her colleagues Congressmen Eliot Engel, (D-NY-17), and Lee Terry (R-NE-02), re-introduced the Drug Testing Integrity Act of 2009, H.R. 858. The reintroduced version is identical to the bill the bipartisan trio introduced in July 2008.
H.R. prohibits the manufacture, marketing, selling, shipping or otherwise providing an individual with any product designed for the purpose of assisting in subverting or masking a drug test.
“Drug testing is an important tool for public safety,” said Congresswoman Schmidt. “It doesn’t make sense for us to require some professions to take drug tests and allow products to be sold that subvert the results of those tests,” Schmidt added.
Under H.R. 858, The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) would be tasked with implementing and enforcing the ban on these masking agents. Anyone found violating the law would be subject to stiff civil penalties and fines.
“People who subvert a drug test put their co-workers and public safety at risk,” Schmidt stated. “As I said when we first introduced this bill last year, it is ridiculous that you can walk into a store and buy a product that undermines a drug test,” Schmidt concluded.
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