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SR106 - A RESOLUTION honoring Dr. Clifford Lowdenback for his service as the current president of the Kentucky Dental Association.
Reginald Thomas, George Maxwell Wise
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Honor Dr. Clifford Lowdenback for serving as the current president of the Kentucky Dental Association.
STATUS
Passed
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
SR19 - A RESOLUTION honoring the life and accomplishments of former Kentucky Governor Brereton Chandler Jones.
Reginald Thomas
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Honor the life and accomplisments of former Kentucky Governor Brereton Chandler Jones.
STATUS
Failed
SB98 - AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Board of Education.
Reginald Thomas
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
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; amend KRS 156.040 to exclude the student member from the age and college degree requirements.
STATUS
Introduced
SB36 - AN ACT relating to syringe services programs.
Reginald Thomas, David Yates
Last updated 9 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 218A.500 to allow the United States Department of Veterans Affairs health care system to operate a syringe services program.
STATUS
Introduced
SR75 - A RESOLUTION honoring Senator Gerald Neal for receiving the Keepers of the Dream Freedom Award.
David Yates, Reginald Thomas
Last updated 5 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Honor Senator Gerald Neal upon his receipt of the 2024 Keepers of the Dream Freedom Award.
STATUS
Passed
SR78 - A RESOLUTION commemorating and honoring the life and accomplishments of Dr. J. W. Patterson.
Reginald Thomas, Robin L. Webb
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Commemorate and honor the life and accomplishments of Dr. J. W. Patterson.
STATUS
Passed
SR18 - A RESOLUTION honoring the life and accomplishments of Alice Dudley Woods Baesler.
Reginald Thomas
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Honor the life and accomplishments of Alice Dudley Woods Baesler.
STATUS
Passed
SB54 - AN ACT relating to heirs property and making an appropriation therefor.
Reginald Thomas
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
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 determination of value through agreement or appraisal; create protocol for buyouts, partition alternatives, partition in kind, sale by open market, sealed bids, or auction; create the heirs property research fund; amend KRS 324B.050 to authorize the Kentucky Real Estate Authority to promulgate administrative regulations to issue grants from the fund; amend KRS 64.012 to increase the recording and indexing fee collected by county clerks by $1 and to direct those additional fees to the heirs property research fund; amend KRS 381.135 and 389A.030 to conform; APPROPRIATION.
STATUS
Introduced
SR29 - A RESOLUTION honoring the life and accomplishments of former Kentucky Governor Brereton Chandler Jones.
Damon Thayer, Reginald Thomas
Last updated 9 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Honor the life and accomplishments of former Kentucky Governor Brereton Chandler Jones.
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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