Pubdate: Thu, 17 Feb 2005
Source: Wichita Eagle (KS)
Copyright: 2005 The Wichita Eagle
Contact: http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/editorial/4664538.htm
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Author: Fred Mann
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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.
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