---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 862b"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "862b"
heading: "Sanctioning for testing positive for controlled substances"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/862b"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Drug Abuse Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter I — Control and Enforcement"
  - "Part D — Offenses and Penalties"
---

# §862b. Sanctioning for testing positive for controlled substances


Notwithstanding any other provision of law, [States](/usc/21/802.md?p=26) shall not be prohibited by the Federal Government from testing welfare recipients for use of [controlled substances](/usc/21/802.md?p=6) nor from sanctioning welfare recipients who test positive for use of [controlled substances](/usc/21/802.md?p=6).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–193, title IX, § 902, Aug. 22, 1996, 110 Stat. 2347.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, and not as part of the Controlled Substances Act which comprises this subchapter.