USDA to Gov. Deal: You can't do that.

The Georgia legislature passed, and Gov. Nathan Deal signed into law in April, a bill that requires drug testing of anyone applying for food stamps that is suspected of being on drugs, beginning in 2016.

Now the U. S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the food stamp program, has informed the governor that he cannot do that.  The regional USDA administrator wrote to Gov. Deal:

"Requiring SNAP applicants and recipients to pass a drug test in order to receive benefits would constitute an additional condition of eligibility, and therefore, is not allowable under law."

That's pretty clear.

Ralph