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SR141 - A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and celebration of Glendell Bennett on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
Reginald Thomas
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Adjourn in honor and celebration of Glendell Bennett on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
STATUS
Passed
SB40 - AN ACT relating to school meals at low-income schools and making an appropriation therefor.
Casey Chambers Armstrong, Reginald Thomas, David Yates
Last updated 9 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
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 provision at the paid rate; require a school district that receives a reimbursement to develop and implement a Kentucky Proud school plan to identify and purchase available Kentucky-grown agricultural products and to optimize food usage; direct the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to carry out this section; provide that the section shall be null and void if the community eligibility provision is terminated by the United States Department of Agriculture; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Proud School Match Act; APPROPRIATION.
STATUS
Introduced
SB47 - AN ACT relating to railroad operations.
Greg Elkins, Robin L. Webb, Reginald Thomas
Last updated 9 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
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.
STATUS
Introduced
SR98 - A RESOLUTION honoring Dr. Marion Simon upon the occasion of her retirement.
Reginald Thomas
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Honor Dr. Marion Simon upon the occasion of her retirement from Kentucky State University and for her service to small farmers across Kentucky.
STATUS
Passed
SR148 - A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Carolyn Marie Davenport Allen.
Reginald Thomas
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Carolyn Marie Davenport Allen.
STATUS
Passed
SR191 - A RESOLUTION honoring Dr. Ronald Berry on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
Reginald Thomas
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Adjourn in honor of Dr. Ronald Berry on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
STATUS
Failed
SB270 - AN ACT relating to prior authorization.
Jason G. Howell, Karen Berg, Reginald Thomas
Last updated 7 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
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; establish requirements for rescinding prior authorization exemptions; set forth requirements for external reviews of prior authorization exemption denials and rescissions; establish requirements for sending forms and notices to health care providers; provide that nothing shall be construed to authorize a health care provider to act outside the provider's scope of practice or require an insurer or private review agent to pay for a health care service performed in violation of law; require the commissioner of the Department of Insurance to establish forms; amend KRS 304.17A-605 to establish applicability of provisions relating to prior authorization exemptions to certain insurers and private review agents; amend KRS 304.17A-607 to establish requirements for prior authorizations; amend KRS 304.17A-611 to prohibit the retrospective denial, reduction in payment, and review of health care services for which a health care provider has a prior authorization exemption and establish exceptions; amend KRS 304.17A-621 to conform; amend KRS 304.17A-627 to prohibit conflicts of interest with independent review entities and reviewers of prior authorization exemption denials and rescissions; require independent review entities and reviewers of prior authorization exemption denials and rescissions to submit an annual report to the Department of Insurance; amend KRS 304.17A-633 to require the commissioner of the Department of Insurance to report on external reviews of prior authorization exemptions denials and rescissions; amend KRS 304.17A-706 to conform; amend KRS 205.536 to require managed care organizations contracted to provide Medicaid benefits to comply with the sections on prior authorization exemptions; apply the provisions to contracts delivered, entered, renewed, extended, or amended on or after the effective date of the Act; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
SB189 - AN ACT relating to veterinary medicine programs at comprehensive universities.
Jason G. Howell, Robert M. Mills, Jared K. Carpenter
Last updated 8 months ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Murray State University to offer doctor's degrees required for professional practice and licensure in veterinary medicine.
STATUS
Introduced
SB111 - AN ACT relating to coverage for the treatment of stuttering.
Whitney H. Westerfield, Reginald Thomas
Last updated 6 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amends 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 the state employee health plan to comply with the speech therapy coverage requirement and to make technical amendments; creates a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health insurance coverage for speech therapy as a treatment for stuttering; provides that various sections apply to health insurance policies, certificates, plans, or contracts issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025; establishes the construction of Section 1 for purposes of federal law and requires state officials to comply; and requires the Department of Insurance and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval, if necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
SR196 - A RESOLUTION honoring Dr. Patrick McGrath upon the occasion of his retirement from the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center.
Reginald Thomas
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Honor Dr. Patrick McGrath upon the occasion of his retirement from the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
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Senator from Kentucky district SD-013
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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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