Kentucky Senator Reginald Thomas [D] | Bills

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KYSB127PassCreates 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 def...
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2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 109)
KYSB188PassAmends KRS 18A.2254 to require that the state employee health plan and state agencies comply with certain pharmacy-related insurance laws; creates new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms for pharmacy-related insurance practice...
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2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 104)
KYSB240PassCreates a new section of KRS Chapter 199.892 to 199.896 to allow the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to give child-care benefits to foster parents who work outside the home or telework inside the home, and to require the cabinet to apply for a...
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2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 84)
KYSB111PassAmends KRS 18A.225, 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 304.17C-125 to require limited health service benefit plans, Medicaid, self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and t...
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2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 69)
KYSB14PassAmends 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 tech...
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2024-03-29
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.25)
KYSB317Engross

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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 365 to define terms; establish property rights in every individual's name, voice, or likeness; establish how those property rights may be transferred or terminated; provide for liability, enforcement, and damages r...
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2024-03-13
To House Committee On Committees
KYSB130Engross

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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...
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2024-03-11
To House Committee On Committees
KYSB131Engross

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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 synthe...
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2024-03-07
To House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee
KYSB13Intro

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Establish KRS Chapter 202D and create new sections thereof relating to crisis aversion and rights retention orders; provide limitations on interpretation of the Act; define terms; allow law enforcement officers to petition a court to issue orders whe...
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2024-03-01
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee
KYSB301Intro

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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.
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2024-02-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
KYSB270Intro

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Amend KRS 304.17A-600 to define "health care provider" and "health care service"; make conforming amendments; create new sections of KRS 304.17A-600 to 304.17A-633 to establish eligibility criteria and requirements for prior authorization exemptions;...
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2024-02-28
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee
KYSB237Intro

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Amend KRS 317.410 to define "mobile barber shop"; amend KRS 317.420 to restrict a person from operating a mobile barber shop without being licensed by the Kentucky Board of Barbering; amend KRS 317.430 to authorize the board to govern mobile barber s...
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2024-02-22
To Senate Licensing and Occupations Committee
KYSB189Intro

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Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Murray State University to offer doctor's degrees required for professional practice and licensure in veterinary medicine.
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2024-02-20
To Senate Education Committee
KYSB185Intro

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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.
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2024-02-09
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee
KYSB184Intro

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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 organiz...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee
KYSB173Intro

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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 appr...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYSB152Intro

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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 impr...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee
KYSB134Intro

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Amend KRS 344.010 to include definitions for "sexual orientation" and "gender identity"; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identi...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
KYSB124Intro

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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require staff-to-resident ratios in long-term care facilities as a condition of licensure or relicensure by January 1, 2025.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYSB117Intro

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Propose to amend Section 25 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude in all circumstances; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
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2024-01-22
To Senate State & Local Government Committee
KYSB112Intro

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 189 to define "agency," "owner," "recorded images," and "traffic control signal monitoring system"; establish a civil penalty of $50 if a motor vehicle is recorded failing to obey the instructions of a traffic contr...
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2024-01-19
To Senate Transportation Committee
KYSB103Intro

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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,...
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2024-01-12
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYSB98Intro

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Amend KRS 156.029 to change the public high school nonvoting student member to a voting member of the Kentucky Board of Education; add an at-large member to the board; require at least two of the members to have a child enrolled in public school; ame...
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2024-01-11
To Senate Education Committee
KYSB22Intro

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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.
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2024-01-05
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee
KYSB47Intro

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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to require a crew of at least two persons during the operation of a train or light engine; amend KRS 277.990 to include penalties for crews of less than two persons.
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2024-01-05
To Senate Transportation Committee
KYSB52Intro

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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, r...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Education Committee
KYSB36Intro

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Amend KRS 218A.500 to allow the United States Department of Veterans Affairs health care system to operate a syringe services program.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee
KYSB53Intro

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Amend various sections of KRS 387.500 to 387.770 to change the term "ward" to "protected person"; allow the respondent the right to retain private counsel; set out the respondent's right to an attorney who does not act as a guardian ad litem; increas...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee
KYSB42Intro

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Amend KRS 337.010 to increase the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries from $95,000 to $500,000 average annual gross volume of sales for the employer; amend KRS 337.275 to incrementally raise minimum wage for empl...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee
KYSB54Intro

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 381 to enact the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act; define terms, including "heirs property"; create a mechanism for partition or sale among cotenants by the court; create requirements for notice and determina...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee
KYSB51Intro

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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 person...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Licensing and Occupations Committee
KYSB38Intro

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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 t...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee
KYSB40Intro

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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Proud School Match Program; direct the Department of Education to reimburse an eligible school district $0.33 for every meal reimbursed by the community eligibility provi...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee
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