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SB103 - AN ACT relating to freestanding birthing centers.
Shelley Frommeyer, John Schickel, Julie Adams
Last updated 9 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "freestanding birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate updated administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers, including requiring accreditation by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers, compliance with the American Association of Birth Centers' Standards for Birth Centers, and consistent plans for transfer and safe transport to a hospital as needed, and to delineate medical malpractice insurance requirements for centers; exempt a center with no more than four beds from certificate-of-need requirements for establishing and licensing a freestanding birthing center; state intent not to limit or expand liability of a center or health care provider or facility; add requirement for medical malpractice insurance for freestanding birthing centers; prohibit abortions in freestanding birthing centers; amend KRS 216B.015 to include freestanding birthing centers in the definition of "health facility"; amend KRS 216B.020, 196.173, 211.122, 211.647, 211.660, 213.046, 214.155, 214.565, 214.567, 214.569, 216.2920, and 216.2970 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Mary Carol Akers Birth Centers Act.
STATUS
Introduced
SR60 - A RESOLUTION honoring the agencies and organizations who combat human trafficking.
Casey Chambers Armstrong, Karen Berg, Shelley Frommeyer
Last updated 8 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Honor the agencies and organizations who combat human trafficking.
STATUS
Passed
SB97 - AN ACT relating to a sales and use tax exemption for diapers.
Casey Chambers Armstrong, Julie Adams, Karen Berg
Last updated 9 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 139.010 to define "clothing" and "diaper"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt all diapers from the sales and use tax.
STATUS
Introduced
SB51 - AN ACT relating to music therapy and making an appropriation therefor.
Gerald A. Neal, Denise Harper Angel, Reginald Thomas
Last updated 9 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 309 to define terms; establish a licensing board for professional music therapists; require three members of the board to have engaged in three years of the practice or teaching of music therapy; prohibit any persons not licensed under this board from holding himself or herself out as a licensed professional music therapist; authorize the board to promulgate administrative regulations; authorize the board to issue a license to practice music therapy; establish the process for license renewal, suspension, and revocation; establish fees for licensure; establish fee limitations; authorize the board to implement disciplinary actions; require a licensed professional music therapist to collaborate with a client's physician or other professional involved in the treatment of the client; require a licensed professional music therapist to collaborate with a client's mental health or substance use disorder professional involved in the treatment of the client; prohibit a licensed professional music therapist from replacing services provided by an audiologist or a speech-language pathologist; create the licensed music therapy practice board fund; establish a fine for violations; APPROPRIATION
STATUS
Introduced
SB38 - AN ACT relating to providing free feminine hygiene products for elementary and secondary students.
Denise Harper Angel, Reginald Thomas, David Yates
Last updated 9 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "feminine hygiene product"; require each public school that includes any of grades four through 12 to provide free feminine hygiene products to female students; require each local board of education to adopt policies for the distribution of free feminine hygiene products.
STATUS
Introduced
SB146 - AN ACT relating to barbers and cosmetologists.
Denise Harper Angel
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 317.450 to require all licensed barbers receive up to one hour of domestic violence training as a condition of licensure and at no cost to the applicant or licensee; require the board to make training available online; provide civil and criminal immunity; amend KRS 317A.050 to require all persons licensed under the Board of Cosmetology to receive up to one hour of domestic violence training as a condition of licensure and at no cost to the applicant or licensee; require board to make training available online; provide civil and criminal immunity.
STATUS
Introduced
SB14 - AN ACT relating to beauty services.
Reginald Thomas, John Schickel, Rick Girdler
Last updated 6 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 317A.020 to specify emergency order and hearing procedures and to allow the Board of Cosmetology to pursue injunctive remedy and refer violations of the chapter to prosecutorial agencies; and amends KRS 317A.030 to add a licensed nail technician to the board, to replace one citizen-at-large board position with a licensed esthetician, and to allow cosmetologists and nail technicians to use callus graters for callus removal.
STATUS
Passed
SB99 - AN ACT relating to exceptions to restrictions on maternal healthcare.
David Yates, Denise Harper Angel
Last updated 9 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 311.720, 311.7701, 311.781, and 311.787 to define terms; amend KRS 311.723, 311.727, 311.732, 311.735, 311.7706, and 311.782 to allow an abortion when there is a lethal fetal anomaly or the fetus is incompatible with sustained life outside the womb, or when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest and the fetus has not reached viability as determined in the good-faith medical judgment of the physician; amend KRS 311.782 to establish a rebuttable presumption that the physician complied with the requirements of the section; amend KRS 311.7735 to provide an exception to the time requirement for consent when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest; amend KRS 216B.400 to provide an exception for abortion counseling when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest; amend KRS 311.715 to authorize the use of public funds for abortion when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest; amend KRS 213.101, 311.725, 311.760, 311.7706, 311.772, 311.7735, 311.780, 311.783, 311.787, and 311.800 to conform; make technical corrections; provide that the Act may be cited as Hadley's Law.
STATUS
Introduced
SB41 - AN ACT relating to the sale of dogs and cats.
Denise Harper Angel
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 258 to define "animal shelter," "breeder," "broker," and "retail pet shop"; prohibit retail pet shops from selling dogs or cats; allow retail pet shops to collaborate with animal shelters to showcase dogs or cats; require retail pet shops to maintain records documenting the source of each dog or cat it provides space to showcase for at least one year; prohibit the sale or transfer of ownership of a dog or cat in a publicly accessible space; amend KRS 258.990 to include a penalty for retail pet shop operators who violate this Act.
STATUS
Introduced
SR94 - A RESOLUTION honoring the 20th Black History Celebration and recognizing that Black history is American history.
Gerald A. Neal, Julie Adams, Casey Chambers Armstrong
Last updated 8 months ago
38 Co-Sponsors
Honor the 20th Black History Celebration and recognize that Black history is American history.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Kentucky district SD-035
COMMITTEES
Kentucky Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Denise Harper Angel was born in 1959 in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She graduated high school in 1978. In 1982, Angel received her Bachelor's degree in psychology from Temple University in Philadelphia. Angel later earned her Juris Doctorate from Howard University School of Law in 1985. She was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1986 and the U.S. Virgin Islands Bar in 1987. Angel went into private practice before taking a position as an assistant attorney general in the Office of the Virgin Islands Attorney General.read less
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Kentucky Senate from Kentucky
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