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Lobbyist disclosure reporting period: 07/01/2022 - 12/31/2022

Lobbyist name	Joseph Boncore
Business name	Massachusetts Biotechnology Council
Address	700 Technology Square
City, state, zip code	Cambridge, MA 02139
Country	US
Agent type	ExecutiveAgent
Phone	617-674-5109

Operating Expenses

No operating expenses were filed for this disclosure reporting period.

Activities, Bill Numbers and Titles

Client: Massachusetts Biotechnology Council

Total amount paid by client; lobbyist is unable to report compensation at activity level: $30,000.00

House / Senate	Bill Number or Agency Name	Bill title or activity	Agent position	Amount	Direct business association
House Bill	357	An Act to protect innovation and entrepreneurship in the Commonwealth	Support	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1237	An Act relative to non-medical switching	Support	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	3771	An Act providing for Massachusetts COVID-19 emergency paid sick leave	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	696	An Act to help patients and reduce healthcare costs by ensuring patient adherence to medications	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	1481	An Act to restore integrity in the marketing of pharmaceutical products and medical devices	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	1127	An Act prohibiting body size discrimination	Support	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	3056	An act relative to step therapy and patient safety	Support	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	729	An Act to ensure prescription drug cost transparency and affordability	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1254	An Act relative to promoting comprehensive transparency in the pharmaceutical industry	Support	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	3787	An Act relative to pharmacy benefit managers reimbursements to pharmacies in the Commonwealth	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	728	An Act relative to pharmaceutical gag clauses	Support	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	1533	An Act establishing a special commission to study and recommend improvements in the delivery of prescription drug benefits for the citizens of the Commonwealth	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	2651	An act relative to pharmaceutical access, costs and transparency	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	743	An Act establishing a commission to study a state-wide drug repository program	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1272	An Act to promote transparency in prescription drug prices	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	3827	An Act relative to transferring federal funds to the federal COVID-19 response fund	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	736	An Act relative to promoting comprehensive transparency in the pharmaceutical industry	Support	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	1915	An Act to eliminate the tax deduction for direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical marketing	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	2669	An act prohibiting body size discrimination	Support	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1190	An Act relating to patient cost, benefit, and coverage information, choice, and price transparency	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	2096	An Act relative to the establishment of and payments into an opioid stewardship fund	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	642	An Act empowering health care consumers	Support	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	790	An Act to define modest meals and refreshments in prescriber education settings	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	4700	FY 2023 Budget Appropriations bill	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	5050	FY 2023 Budget Appropriations bill	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1191	An Act to help patients and reduce health care costs by ensuring patient adherence to medications	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	2235	An Act to improve patient access to prescription medication	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	644	An Act relative to consumer deductibles	Support	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	804	An Act to promote transparency and prevent price gouging of pharmaceutical drug prices	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	4701	FY 2023 Budget Appropriations bill	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	5060	An act advancing offshore wind and clean energy	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1155	An Act to ensure access to generic medications	Support	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1822	An Act prohibiting body size discrimination	Support	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	639	An Act relative to pharmacy benefit managers	Support	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	786	An Act to bring down the cost of prescription drugs	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	2	FY 2023 Budget Appropriations bill	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	5034	An act relative to Economic Growth and Relief for the Commonwealth	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1059	An Act relative to patient financial protection	Support	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1279	An Act establishing a commission to review contracts between pharmaceutical benefit managers and MassHealth	Support	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	38	An Act financing a program for improvements to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund and providing relief to employers and workers in the Commonwealth	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	756	An Act relative to step therapy and patient safety	Support	$0.00	n/a
Senate Docket	2673	An act relative to medical exemption for manufacturer coupons	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	2695	An act relative to pharmaceutical access, costs and transparency	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1123	An Act relative to pharmaceutical gag clauses	Support	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1311	An Act relative to step therapy and patient safety	Support	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	627	An Act relative to promoting healthcare access and affordability for patients	Support	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	785	An Act to improve the accessibility and affordability of pharmaceutical drugs of public health concern	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	293	An Act expanding opportunities to demonstrate academic achievement	Support	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	4524	An act advancing offshore wind and clean energy	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1053	An Act relative to consumer deductibles	Support	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1278	An Act relative to prescription drug price transparency	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	35	An Act financing a program for improvements to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund and providing relief to employers and workers in the Commonwealth	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	753	An Act advancing health care research and decision-making centered on patients and people with disabilities	Support	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	2058	An Act designating the last day of February as rare disease day in the Commonwealth	Support	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	2673	An act to protect innovation and entrepreneurship in the Commonwealth	Support	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	90	An Act financing a program for improvements to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund and providing relief to employers and workers in the Commonwealth	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1210	An Act relative to drug prices paid by carriers	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	2403	An Act to establish a sharps stewardship program	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	684	An Act to reduce the cost of pharmacy benefits	Support	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	1465	An Act to reduce healthcare costs by promoting non-biased prescriber education	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	4	FY 2023 Budget Recommendations bill	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	2842	An act advancing offshore wind and clean energy	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1198	An Act to ensure access to the full range of treatment options for people with obesity	Support	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	2325	An Act relative to pharmacy testing	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	647	An Act relative to health insurer reserve requirements	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	1209	An Act relative to banning noncompetition agreements in the Commonwealth	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	4720	An act investing in future opportunities for resiliency, workforce, and revitalized downtowns	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	5260	An act relative to appropriations for the fiscal years 2022 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1107	An Act relative to health insurer reserve requirements	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1307	An Act establishing a study to examine the feasibility of state manufactured generic prescription drugs	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	613	An Act protecting research animals	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	771	An Act relative to pharmaceutical access, costs and transparency	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	612	An Act expanding opportunities to demonstrate academic achievement	Support	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	2915	FY 2023 Budget Appropriations bill	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1069	An Act empowering health care consumers	Support	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1303	An Act relative to compensation for victims of opioids	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	215	An Act to protect innovation and entrepreneurship in the Commonwealth	Support	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	770	An Act relative to primary care for you	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	46	An Act establishing the Massachusetts Information Privacy Act	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	2774	An act investing in the future of our health	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	201	An Act advancing health care research and decision-making centered on patients and people with disabilities	Support	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1224	An Act relative to promoting healthcare access and affordability for patients	Support	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	3702	An Act providing for Massachusetts COVID-19 emergency paid sick leave	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	696	An Act to help patients and reduce healthcare costs by ensuring patient adherence to medications	Support	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	1480	An Act to prevent undue influence on prescriber behavior	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	293	An Act expanding opportunities to demonstrate academic achievement	Support	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	3030	An act relative to Economic Growth and Relief for the Commonwealth	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	55	An Act financing a program for improvements to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund and relief to employers in the Commonwealth	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1201	An Act ensuring access to medications	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	2377	An Act to permit the wholesale importation of prescription drugs into the Commonwealth	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	650	An Act relating to patient cost, benefit and coverage information, choice, and price transparency	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	1250	An Act relative to clarifying legislative intent regarding the non-competition law	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	4864	An act investing in future opportunities for resiliency, workforce, and revitalized downtowns	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	5358	An act relative to step therapy and patient safety	Support	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	89	An Act financing a program for improvements to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund and providing relief to employers and workers in the Commonwealth	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	1202	An Act to ensure access to generic medication	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	2397	An Act creating an obesity task force and pilot program	Support	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	664	An Act ensuring access to medications	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
Senate Bill	1294	An Act strengthening prescription drug safety and drug stewardship	Oppose	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	4929	An act relative to step therapy and patient safety	Support	$0.00	n/a
House Bill	5374	An act relative to Economic Growth and Relief for the Commonwealth	Neutral	$0.00	n/a
			Total amount	$0.00

Meals, Travel, and Entertainment Expenses

No meals, travel, or entertainment expenses were filed for this disclosure reporting period.

Additional Expenses

No additional expenses were filed for this disclosure reporting period.

Campaign Contributions

Date	Recipient name	Office sought	Amount
08/29/2022	Liz Miranda	State Senate, 2nd Suffolk District	$200.00
09/22/2022	Paul Feeney	State Senate, Bristol & Norfolk District	$200.00
09/28/2022	Marjorie Decker	State Representative, 25th Middlesex District	$200.00
10/19/2022	Jeffrey Roy	State Representative, 10th Norfolk	$200.00
10/27/2022	Diana DiZoglio	Massachusetts State Auditor	$200.00
10/27/2022	Adrian Madaro	State Representative, 1st Suffolk District	$200.00
11/15/2022	Michelle Wu	Mayor, City of Boston	$200.00
12/30/2022	Neil Harrington	Mayor, City of Salem	$200.00
		Total contributions	$1,600.00

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