The Legislature might be pushing back on Florida Gov. Rick Scott's plan to cut the corporate income tax rate, but it seems to be embracing his call to drug-test welfare cash recipients.

Bills moving through the House and Senate that originally required only recent drug felons to take drug tests to receive welfare cash assistance now have been amended to expand the testing requirement to all welfare cash recipients.

Scott said, as part of his seven-step plan to create 700,000 private-sector jobs, that he could save taxpayers $77 million by adding a testing requirement and more stringent work provisions for cash welfare recipients. He also has proposed random drug tests for current state employees.

SB 556 and HB 353 have been altered so that all applicants hoping to receive Temporary Assistance to Needy Families payments must first pass a drug screening test. Under the proposals, the applicants would be required to pay for the test.

Sen. Paula Dockery, R-Lakeland, offered the more stringent proposal on Scott's behalf. The new testing requirement would affect about 58,000 people.

Applicants who fail an exam will be prevented from receiving cash assistance for one year. If they fail a subsequent test, they will be unable to receive welfare payments for three years.

The proposal has survived three House committees and one committee in the Senate.

We'll watch how these bills proceed. But for now, we keep this promise rated In the Works.