The law runs counter to the state's criminal code reform which aimed to give judges more flexibility to suspend sentences, particularly of drug offenders.

An Indiana lawmaker Wednesday took another pass at rewriting last year's religious freedom restoration law - and the measure barely got a hearing, let alone a vote.

The House shot down a prescription-only bill targeting pseudoephedrine sales, but two other bills targeting meth production advanced out of Senate committee.

Senate Republicans will push this session to make it easier for prosecutors to try to convict people as drug dealers.