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SB130 - AN ACT relating to discriminatory practices by state agencies.
Adrienne E. Southworth, Casey Chambers Armstrong, Karen Berg
Last updated 7 months ago
27 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to make it unlawful for a state agency to discriminate against a person based on his or her access to electronic means to obtain benefits or gain access to public buildings; provide that the Act may be cited as the Digital Identification Act.
STATUS
Engrossed
SR243 - A RESOLUTION honoring Transylvania University women's basketball Associate Head Coach Hannah Varel, 2024 Women's Basketball Coaches Association National Assistant Coach of the Year.
Reginald Thomas
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Honor Transylvania University women's basketball Associate Head Coach Hannah Varel, 2024 Women's Basketball Coaches Association National Assistant Coach of the Year.
STATUS
Passed
SR201 - A RESOLUTION recognizing Elaine Allen, LLC as the first African American-owned construction company in Lexington, Kentucky.
Reginald Thomas
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Recognize and commend Elaine Allen, LLC as the first African American-owned construction company in Lexington.
STATUS
Passed
SB185 - AN ACT relating to prevailing wage.
Casey Chambers Armstrong, David Yates, Karen Berg
Last updated 8 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Establish new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to create a prevailing wage law for all public works projects; amend KRS 12.020, 99.480, 227.487, 151B.015, 337.010, and 337.990 to conform.
STATUS
Introduced
SB184 - AN ACT relating to employment.
Casey Chambers Armstrong, David Yates, Karen Berg
Last updated 8 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 336.130 to delete references restricting rights of public employees to organize, associate collectively, or strike; amend KRS 336.180 to redefine "labor organization" and delete definitions of "candidate," "committee," "contributing organization," "contribution," "election," "electioneering communications," "employer," "fundraiser," "independent expenditure," "political activities," "public employee," "slate of candidates," and "testimonial affair"; amend KRS 336.990 to conform; amend KRS 67A.6904 to allow urban-county governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 67C.406 to allow consolidated local governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 70.262, 78.470, and 78.480 to remove exceptions; amend KRS 345.050 to allow public employers to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 336.1341 and 336.135 to conform; repeal KRS 65.016, 336.132, and 336.134.
STATUS
Introduced
SB127 - AN ACT relating to aerospace infrastructure, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Brandon Jackson Storm, Danny Carroll, Amanda Mays Bledsoe
Last updated 6 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establishes the Kentucky Aerospace, Aviation, and Defense Investment Fund Advisory Committee; establishes the membership of the committee; establishes the Kentucky aerospace, aviation, and defense investment fund to be administered by the Council for Postsecondary Education for the purpose of funding public and private partnerships to provide aviation training scholarships and aviation and aerospace equipment grants; requires that the portion of the fund expended toward the council’s administrative costs shall not exceed 0.5 percent of all gross moneys in the fund or $75,000 annually, whichever is less; directs the council to promulgate administrative regulations to carry out this Act; requires those administrative regulations to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission for comment prior to filing; requires advisory committee members to abstain from voting on a matter involving a conflict of interest; requires that the council shall reserve at least 65 percent of all net moneys in the fund for partnership proposals between aviation and aerospace programs and aviation and aerospace industry partners to provide aviation training scholarships to Kentucky residents enrolled in aviation and aerospace programs; directs the council to prioritize accepting partnerships to proposals targeted to reduce the workforce demand of a specific eligible aviation or aerospace credential the council determines to be among the highest in demand in the Commonwealth; directs that a partnership shall require a written partnership contract and establishes the minimum contract requirements; directs that disbursements of moneys from the fund to support aviation training scholarships be made directly to an aviation program pursuant to the terms of the partnership contract; requires that an aviation program that enters a partnership contract solicit, accept, and review aviation training scholarship applications submitted by students enrolled in the aviation program; directs that an aviation training scholarship issued by an aviation program pursuant to a partnership contract be made directly to a recipient pursuant to a written scholarship contract between the recipient and the aviation program, and sets minimum contract requirements; directs that a grantor may place restrictions upon a contribution to the fund requiring specific criteria for an aviation training scholarship or scholarships funded by the grantor’s dedicated funds; directs that the aviation training scholarship contract grant the aviation program, the Commonwealth, or the aviation industry partner the authority to initiate recoupment proceedings for the recovery of the total amount of all aviation training scholarships awarded to an individual who fails to complete the terms of a scholarship contract; directs that the council reserve up to 35 percent of all net moneys in the fund for aviation equipment partnership contracts between public aviation training programs and aviation industry partners to provide aviation and aviation equipment grants; requires that an aviation equipment partnership require a written partnership contract between a public aviation program, aviation industry partner, and the council, and establishes minimum contract requirements; directs the council to collaborate with the advisory committee to select proposals for partnership contracts; directs that the council may prioritize designated contracts; provides that the council shall require the public aviation program to submit proof that the entire amount of the aviation equipment grant is invested in the maintenance, acquisition, or lease of aviation or aviation training equipment used by students enrolled in a public aviation training program; requires the council to submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission, and establishes minimum report requirements; sunsets the bill on June 30, 2030; and provides that this Act may be cited as the Aerospace Education Reinvestment Opportunity (AERO) Act; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
SB131 - AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.
Amanda Mays Bledsoe, Gerald A. Neal, Reginald Thomas
Last updated 7 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 117.001 to define "electioneering communication," "information content provider," "interactive computer service," "sponsor," and "synthetic media"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to establish a cause of action for the use of synthetic media in an electioneering communication; establish an affirmative defense that the electioneering communication includes a conspicuous disclosure; provide that the sponsor of the electioneering communication may be held liable, but the medium is not liable, except in certain circumstances.
STATUS
Engrossed
SR255 - A RESOLUTION recognizing March 2024 as Kentucky Women's History Month throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Robin L. Webb, Denise Harper Angel, Casey Chambers Armstrong
Last updated 5 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Recognize March 2024 as Kentucky Women's History Month in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
STATUS
Passed
SR266 - A RESOLUTION honoring Transylvania University women's basketball Head Coach Juli Fulks, 2024 Women's Basketball Coaches Association National Coach of the Year.
Reginald Thomas
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Honor Transylvania University women's basketball Head Coach Juli Fulks, 2024 Women's Basketball Coaches Association National Coach of the Year.
STATUS
Passed
SB301 - AN ACT relating to assisted reproduction.
Casey Chambers Armstrong, David Yates, Karen Berg
Last updated 7 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to state that there shall be no criminal liability against a provider engaged in assisted reproduction who meets the professional standard of care.
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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