(File Photo: Source for Photo: Christopher Lynch, music historian with the Center for American Music at the University of Pittsburgh, holds a piece of sheet music written by Charles Henry Pace, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, at the University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh. Lynch and the university are coordinating a project to recognize the pivotal role Pace played in gospel music as an early pioneer of the genre. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from Senator Elder Vogel Jr.’s office, music therapists in Pennsylvania could be professionally licensed by the state.Legislation that was introduced by Vogel and state Senator Carolyn Comitta that is new helped this to be possible, and it is called Senate Bill 579. This bill would make an exam for board certification to continue requirements of education and make an ethics code for therapists of music that are trained to get licensed professionally