Western Missouri Senator Chris Koster's bill would impose mandatory minimum sentences for meth dealers and mandatory treatment for users.

Koster termed his approach the Missouri Meth Project.

  

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Description: We need an approach that addresses methamphetamines on the criminal justice front, on the educational front and on the treatment front if we are ever to make progress on this scourge of a drug.

The bill would also monitor sales of pseudo-ephedrine and increase sheriff deputies' salaries to almost 30 thousand per year. 

Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Rebecca Layne.

   Individuals convicted of meth possession would undergo mandatory substance abuse treatment and drug testing with supervised probation.

  Those caught with meth in the house where a child lives will also face child endangerment.