Measures included in the 2015-17 state budget

"Wisconsin's Comeback Plan," a document Gov. Scott Walker issued during his 2014 campaign for re-election, includes a pledge to require a drug test for those seeking unemployment benefits and for able-bodied, working-age adults requesting food stamps from the state.

In April 2015, we rated this promise In the Works. That was based on his 2015-'17 state budget, submitted two months earlier, which proposed drug testing for recipients of food stamps or unemployment insurance.

After changes in the budget were made by the Legislature, Walker signed the measure into law in July 2015. The drug testing for both food stamps and unemployment remained in the final budget.

And two days after Walker signed the budget, his administration sued the federal government to allow the drug tests for food stamps, a program jointly run by the state and the federal government. Federal officials had been expected to block the move, so the lawsuit was an attempt to pre-empt such an order and get a federal judge to allow the program to go forward.

Under Walker's plan, able-bodied people who don't have dependents would have to be tested for drugs to get FoodShare benefits. Those who failed the tests would get drug treatment, which would be covered by the state if they didn't have another way to pay for it.

Given that drug testing for food stamps and unemployment benefits is now law, we change the rating on this Walker pledge to Promise Kept.