From 1998 to 2002, Olha Bodnar served as an assistant to the People's Deputy of Ukraine. Following this role, she held the position of Head of the Secretariat of the BYuT parliamentary fraction in Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from 2002 to 2006. She was a People's Deputy of the 5th Verkhovna Rada (elected from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, No. 126 in the list) from May 2006 till June 2007.
She was performing the duties of chairman of the subcommittee on state building and the administrative reform committee on state building, regional policy and local government (since July 2006). Olha Bodnar also has been the BYuT fraction member since May 2006.[1][2]
In November 2007 she was elected People's Deputy of the 6th Verkhovna Rada (elected from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, No. 85 in the list)[3]
In Verkhovna Rada Olha Bodnar is performing the following duties:
First Deputy Chairman of Verkhovna Rada Committee on State Building and Local Government
Member of the Ukrainian part of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the Sejm and Senate of Poland
Member of the Ukrainian part of the Interparliamentary Assembly of Ukraine and the Republic of Poland
Head of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with the Republic of Lithuania
Deputy Head of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with Finland
Deputy Head of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with Montenegro
Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with Russia