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Boysko Bulletin: Session Prep - Getting Ready for Richmond
Dear Friend,
As promised during the 2025 elections, the incoming Spanberger Administration, House, and Senate Democrats will be prioritizing policies that make life more affordable, strengthen economic stability, and ensure every Virginian has access to the tools they need to build a secure future. This early action reflects months of outreach, community conversations, and feedback from Virginians who are calling for meaningful relief and long-term solutions. Voters will see bills pertaining to housing affordability, economic fairness, and health and education access. My bill SB2 [[link removed]] is on our priority list. It will establish a Paid Family and Medical Leave insurance program.
There are six bills I have sponsored for years that have been passed by the House and the Senate but vetoed repeatedly by Governor Youngkin. I will be reintroducing them.
1. Paid Family and Medical Leave will establish a universal PFML insurance program to provide up to 12 weeks of paid leave for employees
2. safe gun storage to require that guns are locked up in homes where children and prohibited persons are present
3. a bill to protect people with intellectual and developmental and mental health disabilities, providing an affirmative defense to a charge of assault or assault and battery where the behavior was the result of the disability, when there is a physical contact with police officers when the officer is not harmed in the interaction
4. a bill updating Virginia's Equal Pay Act to ban employers from asking for or using wage history to set wages
5. a bill that would allow for the regulation of psilocybin in Virginia only after it is approved by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and rescheduled by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) at the federal level to treat those suffering with PTSD and other mental health issues, especially drug-resistant depression in clinical settings
6. a bill to strengthen protections for captive-born mammalian wildlife by making it unlawful/illegal to prematurely separate nursing babies from their mothers.
In addition, I am chief patron of SJ1 [[link removed]] the Constitutional Amendment to establish the fundamental freedom to access the full scope of reproductive healthcare that includes contraception, fertility treatment, miscarriage management, and abortion.
I will also bring back an anti-rent gouging bill that will give localities additional tools to protect their residents from extremely high rent increases. I will bring back a bill to supplement pay for our National Board Certified teachers and staff, with additional pay for those working in Title I schools. I will carry anti-bullying legislation to establish policies in our private k-12 schools similar to the work I have done over the years at the public school and college level to reduce bullying and hazing. I will be carrying some healthcare-related bills, environmental protection bills, victim protection, and criminal justice reform bills as well.
To answer your question about the Tyson’s Casino issue, nothing has changed. It’s my understanding that the bill will be re-introduced. I have not changed my strong opposition to the proposal. In poll after poll, as well as feedback I regularly receive in my community, there continues to be overwhelmingly strong opposition among voters, especially in Dranesville and Hunter Mill, communities I represent. Rarely has there been a more unifying issue bringing Democrats, Republicans and Independent voters together than in saying No to a Casino in Northern Fairfax County.
There are so many other urgent issues that the General Assembly must address around affordability, education, healthcare, transportation and changes in federal funding. I look forward to addressing the real issues facing our voters and to a productive 2026 session focusing on the needs and priorities of the people of our Commonwealth.
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You are invited to share your thoughts at a town hall on December 18 at 6:30 pm with Delegates Irene Shin and Karen Keys-Gamarra and me. Please rsvp to receive the address: [link removed] [[link removed]] .
Kindest regards,
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Jennifer B. Boysko
Member, Senate of Virginia
Representing the 38th Senate District making up the northernmost portions of Fairfax County (Great Falls, Herndon, McLean, Reston, WolfTrap, parts of unincorporated Vienna and a slice of Falls Church)
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It’s been a busy year back and forth from Herndon to Richmond. Here in District 38, I work with my Chief of Staff Karen Harrison, and aides, Kathy Shupe, Juliet Morro, and Aditi Goel. For constituent services and to schedule meetings with your community group, please call (703) 437-0086 or email [email protected]. Friend me on Facebook [[link removed]] and follow me on X [[link removed]] and Instagram [[link removed]] .
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