Senate Committee Passes Pseudoephedrine Bill

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 6-5 Thursday to pass a measure that would allow medications sold over-the-counter to treat cold and allergy sufferers to be restricted to people with prescriptions in an effort to curb methamphetamine production. Lawmakers have been debating over the past year about whether to restrict sales of certain medications that contain pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in meth. A similar proposal cleared the Judiciary Committee last year but was never brought up for a vote by the full Senate. Senate Republican Floor Leader Robert Stivers II and Republican Senator Tom Jensen have pressed hard to get the legislation through the General Assembly.