A key House committee has rejected another pair of marijuana amendments from floor consideration as part of large-scale spending bills, this time blocking the proposals that would have prevented the covered agencies from using their funds to test federal job applicants for cannabis.
The House Rules Committee on Monday declined to make in order the marijuana measures as part of 2025 appropriations legislation for the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies and Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies.
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) sponsored the amendments, as he’s done with numerous prior proposals he’s filed to spending bills over the past year. The committee has consistently prevented them from advancing to the floor, however.
Here’s the text of the proposals the panel rejected:
SEC. __ None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to test an applicant for marijuana (as defined in section 102(16)(A) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802(16)(A)), except for positions listed as Presumptive Testing Designated Positions by the Selection of Testing Designated Positions Guidance under Federal Drug-Free Workplace Program established pursuant to Executive Order 12564, in—
(1) any of the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware,
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