{"id":391263,"date":"2023-05-10T06:06:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T20:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=391263"},"modified":"2023-05-10T06:06:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T20:06:15","slug":"bill-seeks-to-removes-marijuana-from-pre-employment-drug-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bill-seeks-to-removes-marijuana-from-pre-employment-drug-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill seeks to removes marijuana from pre-employment drug test"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_391264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-391264\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Diego-Vincent-F.-Camacho-mug.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-391264\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Diego-Vincent-F.-Camacho-mug-270x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-391264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diego Vincent F. Camacho<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rep. Diego Vincent F. Camacho (D-Saipan) has introduced a bill that seeks to remove marijuana from all pre-employment drug testing for government applicants\u2014with certain exceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Under Camacho\u2019s House Bill 23-50, pre-employment testing of persons applying for any position within the CNMI government shall not include testing for the presence of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>The exceptions, however, are applicants for government jobs in safety sensitive positions such as those operating motor vehicles, heavy machinery, emergency services, or the carrying of firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Camacho states in the legislation that marijuana, which is no longer an illegal drug under the CNMI law, should not be included in the pre-employment testing for prospective employees, except for specific employees like law enforcement officers, firefighters, first responders, employees in safety sensitive positions, and federally funded employees.<\/p>\n<p>However, the lawmaker said, employees should still be subject to reasonable suspicion testing and post-accident testing to comply with the policy that employees shall not be under the influence of alcohol or drugs when at work.<\/p>\n<p>Several other representatives co-sponsored the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Diego Vincent F. Camacho (D-Saipan) has introduced a bill that seeks to remove marijuana&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":333583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[492],"class_list":["post-391263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}