Virginia Senator Jennifer Boysko [D]

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VAHB2093Engross
50%
Adult adoptee access to original birth certificate; contact preference form. Allows the State Registrar to provide, upon written request, any adult adopted person access to his original birth certificate. The bill allows a birth parent to indicate wh...
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2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Health Committee
VAHB2196Engross
50%
Public schools; student discipline; Restorative Schools in Virginia Pilot Program; established. Establishes the Restorative Schools in Virginia Pilot Program (the Program), to be administered by the Department of Education (the Department), for the p...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
VASJR247Engross
50%
Constitutional amendment (first reference); fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that such right shall not be denied, burdened, or infringed upon unless justif...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:00 am]
Reported from Privileges and Elections (12-Y 10-N)
VASB1013Engross
50%
Affirmative defense or reduced penalty for a neurocognitive disorder or intellectual or developmental disability. Provides an affirmative defense to prosecution of an individual for assault or assault and battery against certain specified persons for...
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2025-02-07
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VASB1002Engross
50%
Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only pr...
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2025-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB2198Engross
50%
Prescribed pediatric extended care centers; licensure; regulation. Authorizes the State Board of Health to license prescribed pediatric extended care centers, defined as nonresidential health care service centers that provide a link in the continuum ...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Education: Health Professions Committee
VASB1133Engross
50%
Restaurants and catering operations; notice of food containing pork products. Requires all restaurants and catering operations in the Commonwealth to place a conspicuous notice next to or underneath food items that contain pork products on menus. Thi...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11]
To House Health and Human Services: Health Committee
VASB1134Engross
50%
Storage of firearms in a residence where a minor or person prohibited from possessing a firearm is present; penalty. Requires any person who possesses a firearm in a residence where such person knows that a minor or a person who is prohibited by law ...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 7:30 am]
Reported from Public Safety (11-Y 10-N)
VASB1127Engross
50%
Animal testing facilities; public notification. Requires any animal testing facility to (i) within 30 days of receiving a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspection report, make such inspection report publicly available along with any other rel...
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2025-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources: Agriculture Committee
VASB1181Engross
50%
Purchase, possession, sale, transfer, etc., of assault firearms and certain ammunition feeding devices prohibited; penalty. Creates a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person who imports, sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses, transports, or transfers ...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 7:30 am]
Reported from Public Safety (11-Y 10-N)
VASB1125Engross
50%
Department of Wildlife Resources; propagation of mammalian wildlife without a permit unlawful; premature separation; hybridization. Makes it unlawful to prematurely separate any mammalian wildlife offspring from the mother prior to the natural time o...
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2025-02-07
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources: Agriculture Committee
VASB894Engross
50%
Civil actions; liability of employer for personal injury or death by wrongful act. Provides that in an action for personal injury or death by wrongful act brought by a vulnerable victim, defined in the bill, against an employee, a finding that the ...
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2025-02-07
Read second time
VASB1233Engross
50%
Pedestrian crossing violation monitoring systems and stop sign violation monitoring systems; violation enforcement; civil penalty. Authorizes state and local law-enforcement agencies to place and operate pedestrian crossing violation and stop sign vi...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12]
To House Transportation: Innovations (Ad Hoc) Committee
VASB1034Engross
50%
Students who need or use augmentative and alternative communication; documentation of needs on individualized education program; staff training. Requires each school division to document on the individualized education program of a student with a dis...
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2025-02-07
Read second time
VASB917Engross
50%
Collective bargaining by public employees; exclusive bargaining representatives. Repeals the existing prohibition on collective bargaining by public employees. The bill creates the Public Employee Relations Board, which shall determine appropriate ba...
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2025-02-07
To House Labor and Commerce Committee
VASB1462Engross
50%
High school graduation requirements; history and social studies credits; certain substitutions permitted. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to permit any student to substitute the African American H...
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2025-02-07
To House Education Committee
VASB1428Engross
50%
Deputy Hunter D. Reedy Memorial Bridge. Designates the bridge on Adwolfe Road and U.S. Route 11/State Route 660 over Interstate 81 in Smyth County the "Deputy Hunter D. Reedy Memorial Bridge."
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 9:00 am]
To House Transportation Committee
VASJR249Engross
50%
Constitutional amendment (first reference); marriage between two adult persons; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition; affirmative right to marry. Repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman ...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:00 am]
Reported from Privileges and Elections (15-Y 6-N)
VASJR248Engross
50%
Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters; right to vote; persons not entitled to vote. Provides that every person who meets the qualifications of voters set forth in the Constitution of Virginia shall have the fundamental ...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:00 am]
Reported from Privileges and Elections (13-Y 9-N)
VASJR336Engross
50%
Celebrating the life of Peter John Kemp, MD.
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2025-02-07
Laid on Speaker's table
VASJR325Engross
50%
Celebrating the life of Thomas S. Whipple.
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2025-02-07
Laid on Speaker's table
VASB1004Engross
50%
Trailer franchise requirements; applicability to certain trailers. Changes the applicability of trailer franchise requirements to only apply to new trailers with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 30,000 pounds.
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2025-02-06
Reported from Transportation (20-Y 0-N)
VAHB2213Engross
50%
School boards; driver education; behind-the-wheel driver training. Strongly encourages each school board, in recognition of the fact that behind-the-wheel training is an essential school-to-work skill and a vital step in the pathway to obtaining a dr...
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2025-02-06
To Senate Education: Public Education Committee
VASB1135Engross
50%
Board of Pharmacy; regulation of crystalline polymorph psilocybin. Directs the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate regulations that allow for prescribing, dispensing, possessing, and using the pharmaceutical composition of crystalline polymorph psilocyb...
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2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 11]
To House Health and Human Services: Behavioral Health Committee
VASB1137Engross
50%
Office of Data Governance and Analytics; oversight; Chief Data Officer; duties. Changes oversight of the Office of Data Governance and Analytics from the Office of the Secretary of Administration to the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. The b...
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2025-02-06
Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N)
VASB1132Engross
50%
Prohibiting employer seeking wage or salary history of prospective employees; wage or salary range transparency; cause of action. Prohibits a prospective employer from (i) seeking the wage or salary history of a prospective employee; (ii) relying on ...
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2025-02-06
To House Labor and Commerce: Subcommittee #2
VASB1237Engross
50%
Department of Medical Assistance Services; appeals of agency determinations. Allows health care providers to appeal any adverse action or determination by the Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) or a DMAS contractor. Under current law, s...
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2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 11]
To House Health and Human Services Committee
VASB1122Engross
50%
Paid family and medical leave insurance program; notice requirements; civil action. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave insurance program with benefits beginning January 1, 2028. Und...
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2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 10]
To House Appropriations: General Government & Capital Outlay Committee
VASB1101Engross
50%
Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention Advisory Council. Establishes the Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention Advisory Council to provide assistance to and advise the Department of Health on methods to support clinical...
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2025-02-06
To House Rules Committee
VASB875Engross
50%
Department of Medical Assistance Services; state pharmacy benefits manager. Requires the Department of Medical Assistance Services by December 31, 2026, to select and contract with a third-party administrator to serve as the state pharmacy benefits m...
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2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 11]
To House Health and Human Services Committee
VASB1195Engross
50%
Line of Duty Act; payments to beneficiaries. Provides that if a deceased person, as that term is defined in the Line of Duty Act, died as a result of certain cancers within 10 years from his date of retirement, his beneficiary shall be entitled to th...
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2025-02-06
To House Appropriations: Compensation & Retirement Committee
VASB1302Engross
50%
Limited-duration licenses, driver privilege cards and permits, and identification privilege cards; expiration. Extends the validity of limited-duration licenses, driver privilege cards and permits, and identification privilege cards, other than REAL ...
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2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 8:00 am]
To House Transportation: Department of Motor Vehicles Committee
VASJR324PassCelebrating the life of the Honorable Frank Miller Ruff, Jr.
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2025-02-06
Agreed to by House
VASB1483Engross
50%
Regulated hemp product retail facility registration; fee. Changes the requirement that a regulated hemp product retail facility registration be required for each location that offers for sale or sells at retail regulated hemp products to instead requ...
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2025-02-06
To House General Laws Committee
VAHJR564PassCelebrating the life of the Honorable Henry Levander Marsh, III.
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2025-02-06
Agreed to by Senate
VASJR340Engross
50%
Celebrating the life of Benjamin "Rod" Rodriguez.
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2025-02-06
Agreed to by Senate
VASJR323Engross
50%
Commending Billy Wagner.
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2025-02-06
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote
VASB1009Engross
50%
Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Allows elections for any local office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. The bill requires the State Board of Elections to provide standards for and to appro...
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2025-02-06
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VASB1041Engross
50%
Virginia Forensic Nursing Advisory Council established; sexual assault forensic examiners; physical evidence recovery kits. Establishes the Virginia Forensic Nursing Advisory Council (the Council), which consists of five members appointed by the Gove...
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2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 10]
To House Courts of Justice Committee
VASB1124Engross
50%
Board of Education; driver education programs; computer-based driver education courses; requirements. Clarifies that the classroom training portion of the standardized program of driver education in the safe operation of motor vehicles, established b...
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2025-02-05
To House Education Committee
VASB1005Engross
50%
Services for sexual assault patients; provision of information for sexual assault patients; Task Force on Services for Survivors of Sexual Assault; work group; report. Changes instances of "sexual assault survivor" and its variations to "sexual assau...
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2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 11]
To House Health and Human Services Committee
VASB1129Intro
25%
National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund; eligibility; incentive grant awards. Renames the National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund as the National Board Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund,...
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2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VASB1265Intro
25%
Department of Motor Vehicles; driver communication improvement program. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to develop and implement a program for the promotion, printing, and distribution of envelopes for use by drivers with a disability that ...
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2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VAHB1641Engross
50%
State plan for medical assistance services and health insurance; pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome. Directs the Board of Medical Assistance Ser...
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2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm]
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
VAHB2501Engross
50%
Department of Motor Vehicles; driver communication improvement program. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to develop and implement a program for the promotion, printing, and distribution of envelopes for use by drivers with a disability that ...
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2025-02-05
To Senate Transportation Committee
VASB1147Engross
50%
Prohibiting sale or distribution, etc., of retail tobacco products and hemp products intended for smoking by persons younger than 21 years of age; penalties. Increases the penalties for an individual or separate retail establishment that sells or dis...
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2025-02-05
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
VASB1301Intro
25%
Workers' compensation benefits; post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, or depressive disorder incurred by law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Increases from 52 weeks to 104 weeks the maximum duration after the date of diagnosis that...
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2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VASB855Intro
25%
Board of Education; Standards of Learning assessments and related student assessment methods; assessment development, implementation, and administration reform. Modifies provisions relating to assessment methods for determining the level of achieveme...
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2025-02-05
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VAHJR453Intro
25%
Recognition of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia. Extends state recognition to the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia within the Commonwealth.
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2025-02-04
To House Rules Committee
VAHB2208Intro
25%
Health insurance; coverage for at-home blood pressure monitors. Requires health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts to provide coverage for at-home blood pressure monitors...
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2025-02-04
To House Appropriations Committee
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