Welfare recipients would be unable to withdraw their assistance as cash or spend it on liquor and cigarettes, under a House-approved proposal supported Wednesday by the Senate Health and Welfare Committee.
The Louisiana House has agreed to require drug testing of welfare recipients, amid charges from opponents that the mandate equals class warfare by targeting poor mothers.
A bid to ask voters in each parish if they want to enact term limits on their local school boards is headed to the full Senate for debate. 
