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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
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
SB22 - AN ACT relating to compensation of jurors.
Whitney H. Westerfield, Brandon Jackson Storm, Reginald Thomas
Last updated 9 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 29A.170 to increase juror pay to $125 per day and remove payment specified for reimbursement of expenses; amend KRS 32.011 to conform; repeal KRS 32.070, which provides for reimbursement of expenses to jurors.
STATUS
Introduced
SB52 - AN ACT relating to technology in education and declaring an emergency.
Reginald Thomas, David Yates, Amanda Mays Bledsoe
Last updated 9 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to make legislative findings and declarations and establish the Artificial Intelligence in Kentucky's Schools project, establish requirements for the Kentucky Department of Education to implement the project, require the department to design professional development trainings related to artificial intelligence, establish professional development requirement for teachers, administrators, school council members, and school board members, require the trainings be made available to nonpublic schools, require school districts to adopt policies and procedures related to artificial intelligence, require school districts to submit annual report to the department, allow nonpublic schools to voluntarily submit a report, require the department to compile the individual reports and submit a statewide report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education and the Legislative Oversight and Investigations Committee; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to make legislative findings and declarations and establish the Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education project, require the Council on Postsecondary Education to establish an Artificial Intelligence Working Group to provide advice and information to the state's postsecondary institutions, establish membership of working group, require the council to develop guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence in postsecondary education, require each public postsecondary institution and each institution licensed by the council to establish institution-level working groups to develop recommendations for the institution's governing board related to artificial intelligence, require institutions to adopt artificial intelligence policies, require each public postsecondary institution and each institution licensed by the council to submit an annual report to the council on artificial intelligence, require the council to compile the individual reports and submit a statewide report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education and the Legislative Oversight and Investigations Committee; amend KRS 156.660 to include computer programming and artificial intelligence in the definition of "technology"; amend KRS 156.670 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to establish a Council for Education Technology to assist in development of the education technology master plan, establish membership requirements of the council, require the council to assist the department in development of the plan and the approved plan be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission, require the five year plan to include guidelines for the implementation and use of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence at both the state and district levels, require the council to develop recommendations related to emerging technology like artificial intelligence, including recommendations related to academic standards and teacher preparation program standards, and submit those to the Kentucky Board of Education or the Education Professional Standards Board; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to establish academic standards related to instruction of computer science that address emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, require the Kentucky Department of Education to develop guidelines to assist school districts and schools in developing curriculum to implement the academic standards; amend KRS 161.028 to require the Education Professional Standards Board to set standards for education preparation programs that address the use of emerging technology, including artificial intelligence; amend KRS 157.615 to conform; EMERGENCY.
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
SB152 - AN ACT relating to the abolition of the death penalty.
David Yates, Reginald Thomas
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030 to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 640.040 to prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole for a juvenile offender convicted of a capital offense; amend KRS 640.010 to define "serious intellectual disability" and "significant subaverage general intellectual functioning"; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, 532.100, and 533.010 to conform; repeal KRS 431.213, 431.2135, 431.218, 431.220, 431.223, 431.224, 431.240, 431.250, 431.260, 431.270, 507A.060, 532.025, 532.075, 532.130, 532.135, 532.140, 532.300, 532.305, and 532.309.
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
SR244 - A RESOLUTION honoring the Transylvania University women's basketball team, 2023 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III National Champions and 2024 Final Four participants.
Reginald Thomas
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Honor the Transylvania University Pioneers women's basketball team, 2023 NCAA Division III Champions and 2024 Final Four participants.
STATUS
Passed
SR242 - A RESOLUTION honoring the Liberty Elementary School track and cross country teams, 2024 Kentucky Track and Cross Country Coaches Association Indoor Elementary State Champions, and 2023 Elementary Boys' Cross Country State Champions.
Reginald Thomas
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Honor the Liberty Elementary School track and cross country teams, 2024 Kentucky Track and Cross Country Coaches Association Indoor Elementary State Champions and 2023 Elementary Boys' Cross Country State Champions.
STATUS
Passed
SB173 - AN ACT relating to Medicaid home and community-based waiver residential services.
Reginald Thomas, Gary M. Boswell
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish the right of a parent, guardian, or limited guardian to install video recording devices in the private residential room of an individual who is receiving residential services under a federally approved 1915(c) home and community-based services waiver program.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Kentucky district SD-013
COMMITTEES
Kentucky Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Reginald Thomas is from Lexington, Kentucky. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky in 1996, and his law degree from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 2000. After law school, Thomas worked in private practice before being elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 2014. He currently serves on the Judiciary and Small Business & Information Technology Committees.read less
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Kentucky Senate from Kentucky
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