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SB405 - Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fee disclosure statement.
Jennifer Barton Boysko
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; fee disclosure statement. Requires landlords subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to include on the first page of a written rental agreement, a description of any rent and fees to be charged to the tenant. The bill requires that such rental agreement also contain: No fee shall be collected unless it is listed below or incorporated into this agreement by way of a separate addendum after execution of this rental agreement.
STATUS
Passed
SB235 - Sexually explicit content; policies on parental notification of instructional material.
Ghazala F. Hashmi, Jennifer Barton Boysko
Last updated 7 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Policies on parental notification of instructional material that includes sexually explicit content; scope and use. Provides that nothing in the law requiring the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model policies for ensuring parental notification of any instructional material that includes sexually explicit content and requiring each school board to adopt policies that are consistent with but may be more comprehensive than such model policies or that is in such model policies or school board policies shall be construed to permit the censoring of books in any public elementary or secondary school.
STATUS
Vetoed
SJR50 - Commending John T. Frey.
Scott A. Surovell, Jennifer Barton Boysko, Jennifer D. Carroll Foy
Last updated 8 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
SB376 - Health insurance; limit on cost-sharing payments for prescription drugs under certain plans.
Jennifer Barton Boysko
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Health insurance; limit on cost-sharing payments for prescription drugs under certain plans. Requires each carrier that offers a health plan in either the individual or small group market to ensure that at least 50 percent of all health plans offered by the carrier, or at least one health plan if the carrier offers fewer than two health plans, in each rating area and in each of the bronze, silver, gold, and platinum levels of coverage in the individual and small group market conform with the following: (i) a plan that offers a silver, gold, or platinum level of coverage limits a person's cost-sharing payment for prescription drugs covered under the plan to an amount that does not exceed $100 per 30-day supply of the prescription drug and (ii) a plan that offers a bronze level of coverage limits a person's cost-sharing payment for prescription drugs covered under the plan to an amount that does not exceed $150 per 30-day supply of the prescription drug. The bill provides that such limits apply at any point in the benefit design, including before and after any applicable deductible is reached. The bill requires that any plans offered to meet its requirements are (a) clearly and appropriately named to aid the consumer or plan sponsor in the plan selection process and (b) marketed in the same manner as other plans offered by the health insurance carrier. The provisions of the bill apply with respect to health plans entered into, amended, extended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
SB393 - MEI Project Approval Commission; board-level gender and diversity requirements.
Stella G. Pekarsky, Jennifer Barton Boysko
Last updated 6 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
MEI Project Approval Commission; board-level gender and diversity requirements. Requires the MEI Project Approval Commission to consider, prior to recommending approval of any major employment and investment (MEI) project, a board diversity disclosure statement submitted by the business seeking incentives. The Commission is required to consider (i) whether such statement specifies the number and percentage of diverse directors who identify as female or as representing a national, racial, ethnic, indigenous, or cultural minority in the country of the business's principal executive offices and (ii) whether the business commits to annually updating and submitting such statement.
STATUS
Vetoed
SB374 - Collective bargaining by public employees; labor organization representation.
Jennifer Barton Boysko, Ghazala F. Hashmi, Saddam Azlan Salim
Last updated 9 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Collective bargaining by public employees; labor organization representation. Repeals the existing prohibition on collective bargaining by public employees. The bill creates the Public Employee Relations Board, which shall determine appropriate bargaining units and provide for certification and decertification elections for exclusive bargaining representatives of state employees and local government employees. The bill requires public employers and employee organizations that are exclusive bargaining representatives to meet at reasonable times to negotiate in good faith with respect to wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment. The bill repeals a provision that declares that, in any procedure providing for the designation, selection, or authorization of a labor organization to represent employees, the right of an individual employee to vote by secret ballot is a fundamental right that shall be guaranteed from infringement. Collective bargaining by public employees; labor organization representation. Repeals the existing prohibition on collective bargaining by public employees. The bill creates the Public Employee Relations Board, which shall determine appropriate bargaining units and provide for certification and decertification elections for exclusive bargaining representatives of state employees and local government employees. The bill requires public employers and employee organizations that are exclusive bargaining representatives to meet at reasonable times to negotiate in good faith with respect to wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment. The bill repeals a provision that declares that, in any procedure providing for the designation, selection, or authorization of a labor organization to represent employees, the right of an individual employee to vote by secret ballot is a fundamental right that shall be guaranteed from infringement.
STATUS
Introduced
SB519 - Divorce; grounds, cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment, eliminates waiting period.
Angelia Williams Graves, Jennifer Barton Boysko, Saddam Azlan Salim
Last updated 9 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Grounds for divorce; cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment; waiting period. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for a divorce to be decreed on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment.
STATUS
Introduced
SB469 - Controlled substances; manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing misbranded drugs, etc.
Mark D. Obenshain, Christie New Craig, Bill R. DeSteph
Last updated 6 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Controlled substances; manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, etc.; adulterated or misbranded drugs; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony for any person, except for permitted manufacturers, to possess, purchase, sell, give, distribute, or possess with intent to sell, give, or distribute an encapsulating machine or a tableting machine that manufactures, compounds, converts, produces, processes, prepares, or otherwise introduces into the human body a controlled substance. The bill makes it a Class 5 felony if such person knows, intends, or has reasonable cause to believe that such action will result in the unlawful manufacture of a controlled substance or counterfeit controlled substance that contains (i) a controlled substance classified in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Drug Control Act or (ii) a controlled substance analog as defined in relevant law. Controlled substances; manufacturing, selling, giving, distributing, etc.; adulterated or misbranded drugs; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony for any person, except for permitted manufacturers, to possess, purchase, sell, give, distribute, or possess with intent to sell, give, or distribute an encapsulating machine or a tableting machine that manufactures, compounds, converts, produces, processes, prepares, or otherwise introduces into the human body a controlled substance. The bill makes it a Class 5 felony if such person knows, intends, or has reasonable cause to believe that such action will result in the unlawful manufacture of a controlled substance or counterfeit controlled substance that contains (i) a controlled substance classified in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Drug Control Act or (ii) a controlled substance analog as defined in relevant law. The bill also makes it a felony punishable by imprisonment for not less than 10 nor more than 40 years for any person 18 years of age or older to knowingly allow a minor or a mentally incapacitated or physically helpless person of any age to be present during the manufacture or attempted manufacture of any substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl. The bill also increases from a Class 2 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony the penalty for violations related to adulterated or misbranded drugs and cosmetics.
STATUS
Passed
SB80 - Decreasing probation period; establishes criteria for mandatory reduction.
Barbara A. Favola, Jennifer Barton Boysko, Russet W. Perry
Last updated 6 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Decreasing probation period; criteria for mandatory reduction; report. Establishes criteria for which a defendant's supervised probation period shall be reduced, including completing qualifying educational activities, maintaining verifiable employment, and complying with or completing any state-certified or state-approved mental health or substance abuse treatment program. The bill provides that a court may decrease a defendant's probation period if warranted by the defendant's conduct and in the interests of justice and may do so without a hearing. The bill also directs the Department of Corrections to meet with relevant stakeholders and provide to the General Assembly by November 1, 2024, a report regarding certain probation practices. The provisions of the bill, other than the requirement that the Department submit a report to the General Assembly, are subject to reenactment by the 2025 Session of the General Assembly.
STATUS
Vetoed
SR6 - Commending the Honorable Dr. Luke E. Torian.
Jennifer D. Carroll Foy, Lashrecse D. Aird, Lamont Bagby
Last updated 8 months ago
39 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Virginia district SD-033
COMMITTEES
Virginia Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Jennifer Boysko was born on April 23, 1964 in Mount Kisco, New York. She received her bachelor's degree in political science and Spanish from Duke University in 1986 and her J.D. from the George Mason University School of Law in 1992. Boysko was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2019 to represent the 86th district. Previously, she had served on the Herndon Town Council from 2008-2016. Boysko has worked as an attorney and small business owner.read less
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Virginia Senate from Virginia
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