SENATE NAMES ANTI-METH BILL AFTER LATE SHERIFF

TOPEKA - The Senate on Wednesday named a bill aimed at reducing access to
cold and allergy medicine used to make the illegal drug methamphetamine
after a sheriff who was shot to death last month while serving a warrant at
a suspected meth lab.

The bill, SB 27, will be named the Samuels Act after Greenwood County
Sheriff Matt Samuels. Samuels was killed Jan. 19, the same day a Senate
committee was hearing testimony on the new bill.

The Senate gave the bill first-round approval Wednesday. Samuels' family is
expected to be in Topeka today when the Senate takes a final vote on it.