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SB188 - AN ACT relating to patient access to pharmacy benefits.
George Maxwell Wise, Stephen L. Meredith, Karen Berg
Last updated 6 months ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Amends 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 practices, to require that insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other pharmacy benefits administrators establish reasonably adequate and accessible pharmacy networks, to require the filing of an annual report, to require that the insurance commissioner review pharmacy networks, to provide that information and data acquired by the Department of Insurance be considered proprietary and not subject to disclosure under open records laws, to establish requirements for certain contracts between a pharmacy or pharmacist and an insurer, a pharmacy benefit manager, or any other pharmacy benefits administrator, to establish prohibited conduct and requirements for certain pharmacy-related insurance practices, and to establish a complaint process for insureds, pharmacies, and pharmacists impacted by a violation of certain pharmacy-related insurance laws; creates a new section of Subtitle 99 of KRS Chapter 304 to authorize the insurance commissioner to order reimbursement to persons who incurred a monetary loss as a result of a violation of certain pharmacy-related insurance laws; amends KRS 304.9-053 to require certain filings; amends KRS 304.9-054 to establish requirements for pharmacy benefit manager licensure; amends KRS 304.9-055 to require that the insurance commissioner promulgate certain administrative regulations relating to pharmacy benefit managers; amends KRS 304.14-120 to require that the insurance commissioner review certain health plan filings; amends KRS 304.17A-712 to conform; amends KRS 304.17C-125 to apply certain pharmacy-related insurance laws to limited health service benefit plans, including limited health service contracts; amends KRS 304.38A-115 to apply certain pharmacy-related insurance laws to limited health service organizations; repeals KRS 304.38A-120, relating to assignment of certain benefits under limited health service organization plans, to consolidate provisions; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 315 to require reporting by ambulatory pharmacies to the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy; amends KRS 367.828 to establish certain requirements for health discount plans relating to prescription drugs; makes technical corrections to existing statutes throughout; applies various sections to contracts issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025; and requires the insurance commissioner and the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy to promulgate implementing administrative regulations by certain dates; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
SR211 - A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Dr. Michael Louis Scott Sr.
Reginald Thomas
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. Michael Louis Scott Sr.
STATUS
Passed
SR365 - A RESOLUTION honoring the life and memory of Cecil F. Dunn.
Reginald Thomas, Amanda Mays Bledsoe
Last updated 5 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Cecil F. Dunn.
STATUS
Passed
SR1 - A RESOLUTION honoring the extraordinary service of Senator Damon Thayer to the Commonwealth of Kentucky upon his retirement from the General Assembly.
Julie Adams, Casey Chambers Armstrong, Karen Berg
Last updated 5 months ago
36 Co-Sponsors
Honor the extraordinary service of Senator Damon Thayer to the Commonwealth of Kentucky upon his retirement from the General Assembly.
STATUS
Passed
SR4 - A RESOLUTION honoring Senator Denise Harper Angel upon her retirement from the General Assembly.
Damon Thayer, Julie Adams, Casey Chambers Armstrong
Last updated 5 months ago
37 Co-Sponsors
Honor Senator Denise Harper Angel upon her retirement from the General Assembly.
STATUS
Passed
SR2 - A RESOLUTION honoring the extraordinary service of Senator John Schickel to the Commonwealth of Kentucky upon his retirement from the General Assembly.
Damon Thayer, Julie Adams, Casey Chambers Armstrong
Last updated 5 months ago
37 Co-Sponsors
Honor the extraordinary service of Senator John Schickel to the Commonwealth of Kentucky upon his retirement from the General Assembly.
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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Kentucky Senate from Kentucky
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