If they tested positive, they were to be offered assistance. A law that would require welfare recipients to undergo random drug testing. The essay, entitled € There Ought to be a Law € , was written by then 16 year-old high school student RJ Field. Should RJ € Law Ought to be a Law. It won an essay competition sponsored by former state Assemblyman € now Republican California State Senator € Yardley Benoit.

If they refused or fail to become sober, their benefits will be taken away.

Young RJ Field was clear about what he wanted. RJ Field grew up with adoptive parents Gloria Wynn and Gerri Field, but his biological mother was a heroin addict on welfare who left him in the hospital immediately after giving birth. Leave a reply A year ago, an essay written by a young lad born with cerebral palsy became the basis for a proposed legislation that called for conducting random drug testing for welfare beneficiaries.

What made the essay persuasive to the point of it being instrumental to the drafting of a law was that its The law has been dubbed as € RJ € Law €.